Daily Bruin
It is important to take actions, such as those described in the study, at the local level, said Edith de Guzman, a co-author of the study and a doctoral student…
Featured PhD Alum: Edith de Guzman
UCLA Newsroom
Richard Turco, the founding director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and his wife, Linda Turco, have pledged $1.5 million to the institute to establish an endowment for the…
Featured Faculty: Richard Turco
VoyageLA
“It’s like calorie counting… but for your carbon footprint!” Meet Kyle Graycar, UCLA Environmental Science alum and founder of Decarbon, a free carbon budgeting app designed to help us understand…
Featured: Kyle Graycar
Los Angeles Business Journal
“Land is very expensive, and farming is not a high-value product in terms of land use,” said Deepak Rajagopal, a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
ABC News
Last month, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a climate change legislative package that included a goal to have every passenger car registered or sold in the state be an electric…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
UCLA Newsroom
Disastrous debris flows after wildfires are becoming more likely as a result of climate change in the western United States. Extreme precipitation circumstances are expected to become more common, according…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Everett Post
Rising ‘divorce’ rates among albatrosses, invasive fire ants are thriving in warmer soil, tuberculosis risks in meerkats increasing… Animal ecology is changing as our planet warms. UCLA‘s Morgan Tingly weighs…
Featured Faculty: Morgan Tingley
The Nature Conservancy
Drs. Tom Bell and UCLA’s Kyle Cavanaugh pioneered the approach for measuring kelp forest density using Landsat satellite data, and in 2019, they began a cooperation with The Nature Conservancy…
Featured Faculty: Kyle Cavanaugh
The New York Times
Global warming is greatly increasing the risk that extreme wildfires in the American West are followed by heavy rainfall, a new study has found, highlighting the need for better preparations…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
“Spring was kind of a reprieve. It’s as if climate and weather and natural hazards can take a breather,” Swain explains. “You do have fires, but not as bad as…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Ph.D. researcher Edith de Guzman and colleagues found that roughly one in four lives currently lost during heat waves could be saved. They calculated how different tree cover and albedo…
Featured PhD Alum: Edith de Guzman
UCLA Newsroom
“Our results from different statistical approaches reveal that epigenetic aging essentially stalls during hibernation,” said lead author Gabriela Pinho, who conducted the study as a UCLA doctoral student advised by…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
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Scientific American
As an example, Lindsey cites the sculpture of a Columbian mammoth sinking into the Lake Pit outside the La Brea Tar Pits Museum—a portrayal that could perpetuate the misconception that asphalt pools…
Featured: Emily Lindsey
Nature
West Virginia vs. EPA will be a major test of how aggressively this new court is going to be reshaping legal doctrines, says Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett…
Featured Faculty: Cara Horowitz
The New York Times
This winter’s extreme rainfall and dryness might average out to near-normal levels of precipitation. But that’s no insurance policy against fire, scientists say. “We still get dry years and wet…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
The drop surprised scientists and may help them understand more about climate change affecting Antarctica and its waters. “It’s really unprecedented,” said Marilyn N. Raphael, a professor of geography at…
Featured Faculty: Marilyn Raphael
UCLA Newsroom
Even years after the smoke clears, forest fires can significantly affect the amount of water flowing in rivers & streams and increase the risk for floods & landslides, a new…
UCLA Newsroom
“What this project is really about is understanding and respecting the complexity of the urban ecosystem, and understanding that if you pull one thread, it changes everything else,” said Chase…
Featured PhD Alum: Chase Niesner
The Hill
Wildfires in Southern California are expected to grow significantly by the end of the century given a projected increase in global temperatures due to climate change. A new study led by University…
Featured Faculty: Glen MacDonald
Wired
Last fall, researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Deepak Rajagopal from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability predicted that retrofitting traditional diesel locomotives with battery power could save railroads…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
The New York Times
“Our future depends on getting the tone right,” Daniel Blumstein, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability, said. He added that the goal should be to eliminate as…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
The New York Times
“We’re at a kind of inflection point between the legacy of the 20th century and the imperatives of the 21st century,” said Stephanie Pincetl, director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at U.C.L.A. “No, you can’t just develop whatever you want to because you want to — that’s over. There’s no accountability in that over the long term.”
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl
New Scientist
UCLA marine geomicrobiology professor Tina Trude and her research team have discovered ocean microbes that can survive up to 120°C and possibly higher temperatures.
Featured Faculty: Tina Treude
UCLA Newsroom
The hazardous co-occurrence of fine particulate matter and ground-level ozone is more common as wildfires and extreme hot weather increase. A new study co-authored by the University of California, Los Angeles’s…
Featured: Daniel Swain