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.
“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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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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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…
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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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.
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…
“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 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.
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…
President Biden’s pledge at COP26 climate summit to cut methane emissions by 30% over the next 9years could be derailed by Sen. Joe Manchin who won’t support anything that would…
“There’s a very substantial relationship between having a park within walking distance of your home and good health outcomes,” said Jon Christensen, an adjunct assistant professor at the UCLA Institute…
The California wildlife-urban landscape, where communities lie on the edge of flammable forests, houses over 11M people. “Buildings are being allowed to build. But are we asking is it appropriate…
New project launched to prevent deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC (November 10, 2021) –The Ituri Forest in Eastern DRC, anchored by the…
“It’s been really remarkable how infrequently we talk about the costs of not solving the problem, which are almost incalculably large,” Daniel Swain, UCLA climate scientist.
