Newsweek
Daniel Swain in Newsweek—Sierra Snowpack Hits Record Levels After Recent Storms
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KSL.com
Park Williams in KSL.com—Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming
The big picture on water comes from data from a pair of satellites known as GRACE, or Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, that were used to measure changes in Earth’s…
CalMatters
Daniel Swain in Cal Matters: Atmospheric rivers continue
According to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, as of this weekend, the Southern Sierra appears to have its largest snowpack in recorded…
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NBC News
Daniel Swain in NBC News: California under flood threat releases millions of gallons from reservoir
“The primary management objective of flood operations is to reduce the risk of downstream flooding rather than conserve for the dry season to come,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist…
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Directions Magazine
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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The Washington Post
Daniel Swain in Washington Post: ‘High risk’ of dangerous flooding as major storm bears down on California
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain called the latest storm a “classic ‘pineapple express-type’ atmospheric river event” with moisture originating near Hawaii.
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The Asia Foundation
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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The Hill
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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Los Angeles Times
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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The Washington Post
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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The Christian Science Monitor
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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Los Angeles Times
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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Yahoo News
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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The Washington Post
Daniel Swain: Washington Post—Half of California freed from drought thanks to rain, snow
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It has not ended the drought completely but we’re in a very …
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UCLA Newsroom
Daniel Blumstein: UCLA Newsroom—Emerging field of evolutionary medicine could address range of health conditions
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Yahoo News
Daniel Swain: Yahoo News—Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said we could see “a historically significant snowfall for parts of the Southern California mountains.” “This well may be the largest single-event snowfall in some…
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Axios
Daniel Swain: Axios—California on track for record snow year as storms cause chaos across state
Climate scientist Daniel Swain noted in an online discussion that in the past decade, California will have experienced some of the most snowy years on record and also “the least snowy years…
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Pepperdine Graphic
Brad Shaffer & Rachel Blakey quoted in Pepperdine Graphic: Funding Biodiversity Research Provides More Understanding Amid Climate Change Effects
“If you buy into the notion that having biodiversity around you is good for people, then we have to understand enough of the ecology and the biology of the relevant biodiversity in the area to be able to keep it with us,” said H. Bradley Shaffer, distinguished professor in UCLA’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department and professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
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Yahoo News
Daniel Swain: Yahoo News—How climate change is making California’s weather more extreme
“A lot of folks are saying, ‘Everything is getting more extreme, it’s wetter and drier and hotter and colder.’ One of those isn’t true,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain told…
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The European Times
Morgan Tingley: The European Times—Magnetic Mishaps: Disturbances in the Earth’s Magnetic Field Could Lead Migrating Birds Astray
Earth’s magnetic field, which runs between the North and South Poles, is generated by several factors, both above and below the planet’s surface. Decades’ worth of lab research suggests that…
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WTHR
Daniel Swain: WTHR.com, The Associated Press—Rainbow appears near Hollywood sign as snow falls near Los Angeles
“Nearly the entire population of CA will be able to see snow from some vantage point later this week if they look in the right direction (i.e., toward the highest…
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Phys.org
Daniel Swain: Phys.org—Heavy snow hits parts of southern California
Daniel Swain, a meteorologist at UCLA said a warming climate—caused by humanity’s unchecked burning of fossil fuels in the industrial age—had changed the nature of winter precipitation in the area.…
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Los Angeles Times
Daniel Swain: LA Times—Snowballs at the Hollywood sign: Does it signal the biggest SoCal snow event in decades?
Los Angeles and other nearby counties are bracing for a snowstorm unlike any seen in decades — or possibly ever. “This could be really substantial,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain…
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