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Upcoming Event: Climate-Wildfire-Stormwater Nexus Webinar April 10th

Join the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability's Water Faculty and Student Group for an online seminar on the Climate-Wildfire-Stormwater Nexus on Monday, April 10, 2023 from 4:00-5:30 PM.


Awards

Elijah Catalan selected for 2023 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award

Elijah Catalan has been selected for a 2023 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA), which is sponsored by the Ecological Society of America. Along with 15 other graduate…

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Angela Johnson Meszaros at UCLA discusses Quemetco’s Lead Legacy: A Cycle of Injustice and Contamination in Southern California

A new report details how Quemetco — the last remaining secondary lead smelter in California — has exploited a failed regulatory structure that does little to protect people and the environment.…

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Marilyn Raphael: Directions Mag—Geographers Examine Climate Resilience, Social and Racial Justice, Energy Transition, and more at Annual Conference March 23-27

5,600 geographers and geospatial practitioners from the public and private sectors and academia, including climate scientist Marilyn Raphael, AAG president and director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; political…


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Farwiza Farhan: Asia Foundation Podcast—The Women Defending Indonesia’s Forests

Now, a band of forest defenders, organized and led by women, is demonstrating that social forestry can stop this kind of destructive exploitation by engaging the communities whose lives are entwined with…

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Daniel Swain: AOL News and The Hill—Yet another atmospheric river to flood California later this week

“It now appears increasingly likely that a potentially significant and very likely warm atmosphere river will probably affect some portion of Northern or Central California,” University of California, Los Angeles…

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Daniel Swain: LA Times—California braces for flooding, snowmelt from a warm atmospheric river set to slam state

“It now appears increasingly likely that a potentially significant and very likely warm atmospheric river event will probably affect some portion of Northern or Central California sometime between about late…

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Daniel Swain: Washington Post—Storms keep hammering California and this could soon become a problem

Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, tweeted that — even if the snowpack is able to absorb much of the rain that’s to come —…

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Daniel Swain: US Times Post—Yet more rain is expected to hit California in March.

UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said about 20% of forecast models are currently depicting a very strong and warm atmospheric river storm in California around mid-March. A series of nine…

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Daniel Swain: Christian Science Monitor—’This is just unreal’: California deals with epic snowfall

“If we can get through the rest of the season without any more roof collapses or snowmelt floods it will be quite a boon,” Mr. Swain said. The snowpack potentially…

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Gregory Pierce: LA Times—California’s snowpack is approaching an all-time record, with more on the way

Gregory Pierce, co-director of the Luskin Center for Innovation at UCLA, said it probably makes sense to consider easing some of the most extreme restrictions, but that conservation efforts should…

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Daniel Swain: Yahoo News—Warm atmospheric rivers in California forecast could spell trouble for massive snowpack

The risk of flooding could rise dramatically with the arrival of warm rains later this month.

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