Fast Company
“When you’re talking about a 10-year lifespan on a bike, you strive to design parts that will last just as long,” says Antoine Kunsch, sustainability program manager at Lyft. “Taking…
Featured: Antoine Kunsch
The Verge
For Lyft, the deal is about ensuring that its huge, nationwide fleet of electric bikes and scooters aren’t ending up in a landfill at the end of their lifespan — which…
Featured: Antoine Kunsch
Folha de S.Paulo
Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greets Chadian environmentalist and SDG advocate, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaks, during the COP27 climate conference in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Los Angeles Times
Featured Faculty: Gregory Pierce
UCLA Newsroom
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LAist
UCLA engineering professor Rajit Gadh said the million electric vehicles in California today alone could be their own massive battery in conjunction with large-scale renewable energy run by utilities.
Featured Faculty: Rajit Gadh
Berkeley Lab News Center
“India has embarked on very ambitious electrification policies prior to this,” said Deepak Rajagopal, an author of the report and a faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab and UCLA. “We find…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
MoneyGeek
Considering the federal incentives for solar technology in the recent Inflation Reduction Act, why have some states not added additional state-level incentives to make solar panel usage even more enticing?
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
La Kretz Center Director Brad Shaffer has been chosen to join the External Expert Advisory Board (EEAB) of the Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) Project (https://biodiversitygenomics.eu). BGE is a multi-partner international…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
KQED
Marin County residents are wrestling with officials they don’t trust for agency over climate plans and flood protections. “The problem is we built our infrastructure assuming these events were very…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Brad Shaffer, La Kretz Center director, was the keynote speaker for the conservation section of the 4th Genomes of Animals & Plants Virtual Conference (GAP22.2), hosted by Cantana Bio (formerly…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
UCLA Newsroom
Low-income homes in California are more likely to have their power disconnected about two to three months after days when the temperature exceeds 95 degrees Fahrenheit than they are at…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
Scientific American
“The old aphorism that ‘when it rains, it pours’ is literally true in this context. It actually encapsulates a lot of the complexity that’s here,” Swain says. This is something…
Los Angeles Times
In a paper published in the journal Current Biology, UCLA researchers found that the 2018 Woolsey fire had greatly increased the odds of a mountain lion being struck fatally by a motorist or killed by a fellow panther in a territorial dispute.
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Featured: Rachel Blakey and Seth Riley
New Scientist
In the 15 months after the Woolsey fire in Los Angeles, mountain lions were more likely to cross busy roads, travel further and move around during the day, putting the already vulnerable group of cats at increased risk
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Featured: Rachel Blakey and Seth Riley
Smithsonian Magazine
With less suitable habitat, the big cats traveled further and crossed dangerous roads more often
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Featured: Rachel Blakey and Seth Riley
UCLA Newsroom
When the Woolsey Fire roared through the Santa Monica Mountains in the fall of 2018, it torched half of the available habitat for the area’s mountain lions — a population…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Featured: Rachel Blakey and Seth Riley
UCLA Newsroom
Kirsten Schwarz, an associate professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named a program director of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Environmental Biology. In the new…
Featured Faculty: Kirsten Schwarz
The Scientist
Recent heatwaves and drought have taken a serious toll on fieldwork, scientists say. Brad Shaffer, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at UCLA, had an extraordinarily difficult time researching the feeding…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
Los Angeles Times
Gregory Pierce, co-director of the Luskin Center for Innovation at UCLA, said Los Angeles is “somewhat of a leader” when it comes to water recycling, and that Hyperion may be…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Pierce
Santa Monica Daily Press
The residents suspected of organizing unauthorized and damaging work to nine city ficus trees on Georgina Avenue earlier this month are unlikely to face consequences. A spokesperson for the City of…
Featured PhD Alum: Edith de Guzman