Daniel Swain, climate scientist at UCLA, was posted on Twitter on Monday that “some regions of Northern California have just experienced their coldest March on record.”
The San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Basin are the areas of highest concern for flooding “In the southern Sierra right now, the snowpack upstream of certain reservoirs is enough to…
Last year’s March was the 11th warmest in the 129 years of record keeping. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, posted Monday on Twitter that “a few regions of Northern California just experienced their…
First, we’ll hear from someone who is himself part of the brain drain, Kevin Njabo. He’s the Africa director and associate adjunct at the Center for Tropical Research, University of California,…
Calling it the “big melt,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain pointed out that “all of that water is going to have to come downhill sooner rather than later.”
Consuming lithium-contaminated tap water during pregnancy could be associated with an increased risk of newborn autism development, according to a new study from the University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Transportation is planning to expand sustainable transportation and electric vehicle charging facilities on campus in an effort to reduce UCLA’s contributions to transportation emissions. Narayan Gopinathan, an environment and…
“As disruptive as this year’s events have been, we’re nowhere near to a plausible worst-case storm and flood scenario for California,” said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.
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Susanna Hecht, director of the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies, received the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography from the American Association of Geographers in Denver on March 24.…
In previous studies, the loss of urban greenness has been shown to increase the incidence of mental illness and affect cognitive function in schoolchildren. Extreme heat exacerbated by that loss…
The findings showed that during drought, more affluent places such as Pasadena, Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles remained greener than lower-income areas such as East Los Angeles, Inglewood and…
“Yet more rain, yet more heavy mountain snow, more travel disruptions,” Daniel Swain, UCLA climate scientist said Monday. He called it “another moderate to strong storm,” though not comparable to last week’s…
This winter, as atmospheric rivers slam into California one after another, Daniel Swain isn’t just worried about rain and flooding. The UCLA climate scientist, who has devoted his life to studying weather,…
And, as Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, pointed out to me, disputes over the dwindling Colorado River still…
“There is more snow water equivalent in the Southern Sierra than at any point since at least the 1950s … and likely longer than that,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist…
An international pledge to ensure that all the world’s population has access to safe drinking water by 2030 is woefully off track, according to a major UN report
The planet is approaching catastrophic levels of global warming and irreversible damage within the next decade, according to the most definitive report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on…