University of California
UCLA professor Rajit Gadh, with a team from three other UC campuses and the national labs in Berkeley and Livermore, won a grant award from the University of California to…
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Zócalo Public Square
Thinking about the state’s future and its magnificent resources and agricultural productivity, the fact that much of agriculture today is intertwined with dependence on hydrocarbons—from fertilizers, fumigants and pesticides to…
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Los Angeles Times
The orders reflect a growing realization that developers simply can’t continue to push into unoccupied areas without dramatically increasing fire risk, especially as climate change-fueled warming and drying has primed more land to burn more intensely, said Stephanie Pincetl, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
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Outside
UCLA climate expert Daniel Swain explains how a convergence of climate change, urban sprawl, and extreme weather fueled the costliest wildfire in Colorado history.
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News-Medical
“Because this study is limited to three common contaminants, the results likely underestimate the actual number of Californians impacted by unsafe drinking water from other chemicals. The at-risk populations are…
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Los Angeles Times
For California agriculture to survive, we will need nothing short of a revolutionary re-envisioning of the future. The alternative is extinction. Stephanie Pincetl is a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and founding director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA. This article was produced in partnership with Zócalo Public Square.
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The Guardian
“The wildland urban interface extends over a far broader area than many folks realize – and it is also dynamic,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said. “Most of the time…
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The New York Times
Dangerous levels of two air pollutants, ozone and smoke, are occurring in tandem with increasing frequency over widespread parts of the Western United States where millions of people live, researchers…
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New York Magazine
“Fire finds a way.” Daniel Swain spoke with New York Magazine about the “urban firestorm” that tore through suburban Denver Thursday, jumping house to house and spreading by football fields…
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NBC News
While fires are likely to become more common year-round, Swain said, winter still would not be a time of high fire activity. “I still don’t think winter is ever going…
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NPR
This fall, California has been in a statewide drought emergency, but the month of December has delivered a surprise – a parade of winter storms blanketing California’s mountains with record-breaking…
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The Guardian
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain wrote for The Guardian: The last few years featured some really prominent global climate and weather extremes. And this year, in particular, kind of puts…
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The Weather Channel
“It’s not the presence of fire on the landscape really that’s the problem,” said Swain. “That’s a natural process. The problem is the magnitude and the intensity of the fires…
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The Washington Post
The weather was wilder than usual this year, and the reasons vary, climate experts say. “The only two truisms when it comes to extremes in climate change are that almost…
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KCRW
More than 400 sites along California’s coastline are in danger of flooding this century — as identified on a map called “Toxic Tides” by UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers. “We…
Featured Faculty: Lara Cushing
UCLA Samueli
A UCLA team led by Yoram Cohen at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and Madelyn Glickfield of UCLA’s Institute of Environment built and operated an on-site system that delivers…
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Inc.
The climate is changing faster than ever before. Machine learning could be a key understanding how–and to what extent. That’s according to Karen A. McKinnon, assistant professor at UCLA’s Institute of the…
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Los Angeles Times
“We know from past flood events that the wealthy communities are not the ones that suffer the greatest impacts,” Cushing said, pointing to recent disasters in New Orleans and Houston.…
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Daily Bruin
Stephanie Pincetl, a professor of environment and sustainability, said the new infrastructure law is not enough to completely address the problems facing American infrastructure today. She said she believes the law is not truly unprecedented, but rather that people are not used to seeing infrastructure investments. Pincetl added the government should provide more generous funding, considering the larger sums spent on other sectors of the economy and the military. “What we actually need is a Congress that is willing to spend taxpayer money on taxpayers and an investment for the nation’s future,” Pincetl said.
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KTLA
More than 98% of the Western United States is experiencing drought, and some have proposed moving water across the country to resolve the problem. Stephanie Pincetl and Alex Hall share…
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The Guardian
“NorCal is, largely, out of the woods this year when it comes to large/fast-moving wildfire potential thanks to widespread heavy October rainfall,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University…
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The New York Times
In the absence of fixes to the disaster recovery program, climate experts said the new lending arrangement from Enterprise and Morgan Stanley was useful. That program “responds to a real…
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UCLA Newsroom
The geographer and director of UCLA”s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability is exploring how work in her field can help vulnerable people all over the globe.
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Foreign Policy
This is a “defining decade,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “If we don’t have large success this decade in bending the carbon…
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