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UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses California snowpack and climate change.

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“The dark places are a refuge,” says Travis Longcore, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. But now, “you have light pollution and skyglow that is as…

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Jasper Kok

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“The ‘Big Melt’ is now officially arriving. Flows on many rivers draining the central and southern Sierra will double or triple (with locally greater increases) as temperatures rise. Some rivers…

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Daniel Swain

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Following its tradition where a renowned person writes the profile of individuals on the list, Anne Rimoin, a professor of epidemiology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) wrote Ogoina’s…

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“I am not saying music festivals and fashion events should not be funded, but those would not be the first things that come to mind for the Green Fund,” said…

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To reach their findings, researchers combined satellite- and ground-based temperature and precipitation observations with global climate models. The models simulate climate outcomes based on data measurements, with and without the…

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Over the past 20 years, UCLA professor Yongkang Xue has been learning how land temperature and moisture influences climate patterns. His latest paper, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society…

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“It’s convenient to have this natural time-released water storage in the form of snowpack, and we’ve designed a lot of our Western water systems to accommodate that,” says climate scientist Dr.…

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According to a new study, climate change is speeding up and intensifying droughts, particularly the fast-developing heat-driven type that catches farmers off guard. It’s the increasing thirstiness of the atmosphere,…

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“The ground is literally sunk in some places by 10 or 15 feet over the past decade,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los…

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What happens is the air gets so hot and so dry that it sucks water right out of plants and soil. “It’s the increasing thirstiness of the atmosphere,” said UCLA…

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The study serves as evidence for the public to help understand how climate warming has been inordinately affecting LA’s communities of color and what changes may be necessary to alleviate…

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The Exhibition under the theme of ‘Sri Lanka in Focus’ is designed to promote tourism in Sri Lanka. As such, it will depict the scenic beauty of the country as…

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Professor Alex Hall’s work with native plants is in full bloom, with a weekend tour and podcast

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Startup Basecamp climate tech startup series highlights Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett’s startup LINUS as an incredible startups that is “leading the fight against the climate crisis.”

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While state officials stopped short of predicting specific flooding locations, the San Joaquin Valley remains a concern with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain telling the Los Angeles Times some parts…

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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.”

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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…

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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…

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Marilyn Raphael will speak as part of the E. Willard Miller Endowed Lecture on April 14

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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,…