Spectrum News
Professor Travis Longcore joined “Inside the Issues with Alex Cohen” on Spectrum News (34:52) to discuss the pros and cons of LED lighting. LEDs frequently emit blue light, which disperses…
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore
Spectrum News
Droughts, earthquakes and wildfires are natural disasters that occur in California. But the Golden State may have to prepare for another climatic event that hasn’t occurred since the 19th century.…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
Gone could be the political and public will to spend hundreds of millions of dollars — with Southern California taxpayers footing a big chunk of the bill — to replace homes…
Featured: Daniel Swain
KQED
According to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist from UCLA and The Nature Conservancy, the situation is setting up to be a “recipe for drought:” a La Nia climate trend combined…
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Newsroom
“The 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave appears to be the result of climate change and extraordinarily bad luck with natural variability,” says UCLA climate scientist & statistician Karen McKinnon.
Featured Faculty: Karen Aline McKinnon
Time
Rainforest conservationist and 2021 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award Winner Farwiza Farhan recognized in the TIME100 Next– a list that recognizes 100 rising stars from across industries and around the…
Featured 2021 Pritzker Award Winner: Farwiza Farhan
Los Angeles Times
Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have dimmed the light pollution emanating from state buildings, writing that the proposed law was an “overly broad mandate” whose costs…
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore
The Conversation
The oceans contain almost all of the water on Earth’s surface, yet turning seawater into fresh water is expensive, energy-intensive, and can harm marine life, writes Gregory Pierce, co-director of…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Pierce
CNN
“When people talk about this, they’re often talking about the acreage burned and actually not only does it not tell the whole story, but it arguably doesn’t tell most of…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Washington Post
“By 2030, a large part of Jakarta will be uninhabitable” — or if not, soon to be regularly flooded, said Kian Goh, an architect and urban planner at the University…
Featured Faculty: Kian Goh
Los Angeles Times
A summer of drought, extreme heat and deadly wildfires will end with much-needed rain this week in parts of California, but it is unlikely to douse the threat of wind-driven fires this fall…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Los Angeles Times
In Los Angeles, there is a deep division between those who want to eradicate coyotes and those who seek peaceful coexistence with the species. On one hand, people want to…
Featured PhD Alum: Chase Niesner
The New York Times
An ambitious project of more than 100 scientists led by the biologist Brad Shaffer at UCLA is currently working to catalog the genomes of about 230 animal and plant species across…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
The New York Times
The California Conservation Genomics Project, led by UCLA La Kretz Center director Brad Shaffer, is highlighted as a unique, coordinated effort to help avert climate-related extinctions across the state. The article also discusses Shaffer's concept of Urban Arks, where non-native endangered species may find sanctuary in cities and urban environments.
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
CNN
Our four-legged friends don’t drive gas-guzzling SUVs or use energy-sucking appliances, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a climate impact. Their meat-heavy diet is the biggest contributor to their…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Okin
Los Angeles Times
“Bears do it, squirrels do it, rabbits do it, dogs [too],” said Daniel Blumstein, a professor at UCLA’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. “They get really flat when they’re…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
dot.LA
Rajit Gadh has led research at UCLA for more than a decade that considers the viability of using electric car batteries to supplement the grid. “[You] can get data from the…
Featured Faculty: Rajit Gadh
Los Angeles Times
Tropical Storm Kay, a system along the northern coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, is expected to cause heavy rains, flash flooding, strong winds and muggy conditions through Saturday. However,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
Experts said the storm’s arrival was certainly unusual; it was one of the closest approaches of an intact tropical cyclone to California in decades, according to Daniel Swain, a climate…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Washington Post
As California narrowly avoided widespread blackouts, the millions of residents who kept the grid afloat by jacking up thermostats and shutting appliances were not the only ones feeling the heat.…
Featured Faculty: Rajit Gadh
Vox
Heat’s impact on the grid is twofold, explained Eric Fournier, research director at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. First, more people turn on their air conditioners and run them for longer on hot days, which means electricity demand is higher. Second, heat has a physical impact on the infrastructure of the grid, making wires less efficient at moving electricity and pushing transformers and thermal power plants to their temperature limits. As the temperature rises, those air conditioners have to work harder to cool the air — which means they draw more power, straining the grid even more. “So you get this feedback loop,” said Fournier.
Featured: Eric Fournier
HuffPost
California has experienced temperatures as high as 117 degrees Fahrenheit in certain areas. “This will be essentially the worst September heat wave on record, certainly in Northern California and arguably…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
“This is going to be a long-duration event,” said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. “And that’s sort of characteristic of heat domes — that’s partly because they can sort of be self-persisting,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Salon
“The shrinking of Lake Powell is due to a number of factors, including the climate change-induced drying noted above, increasing human demand for water in the Basin, and various specific…
Featured: Daniel Swain