The Guardian
The hot, dry, and windy weather conditions fueling the huge wildfires that have besieged the western US this summer have increased in frequency over the past 50 years, a new…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
With a fast-expanding wildfire roaring just one ridge away from the Tahoe basin, residents were in flight this week from smoke so toxic and thick that it spiked past the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Bloomberg
The kind of ‘life-threatening’ rainfall that could flood New Orleans from Hurricane Ida likely has a link to climate change. “Any given hurricane today is holding more water and producing more precipitation…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Forbes
UCLA weather expert atmospheric scientist Daniel Swain astutely tweets, “50 – 100 mile jog to the right/east from the current ensemble mean track centerline would bring Ida right over the warmest part…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Daily Bruin
Yifang Zhu, an environmental health sciences professor, explained there are numerous opportunities for UCLA to become more sustainable, such as collaborating with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Covid-19 can help us make global decisions to solve mankind’s greatest problems, chiefly climate change, social inequality, and unsustainable use of natural resources, said Jared Diamond, biologist & professor at…
Featured Faculty: Jared Diamond
Yahoo News
The actress filmed a video during a rehearsal with musicians Natasha Bedingfield and Rod Castro for a special performance on October 13 in honor of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment…
Los Angeles Times
To Alex Hall, director of the UCLA Center for Climate Science, and others, the wildfire conditions this year underscore how the changing climate is fundamentally altering the dynamics of fighting…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
MIT Technology Review
The landmark, ozone-addressing Montreal Protocol is an example of countries coming together to tackle a massive environmental problem. Distinguished professor Ted Parson discusses with MIT Technology Review the lessons learned…
Featured Faculty: Edward Parson
Newsweek
“It’s very unlikely that this fire will be contained before the winter rains and snows arrive,” Swain previously told Newsweek, “and that has been the case really ever since this fire made…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
“One of the most important things that individual citizens can do is for themselves to understand the problem & support … candidates for political office who understand the severity of…
Featured Faculty: Edward Parson
Newsweek
“It’s very unlikely that this fire will be contained before the winter rains and snows arrive,” UCLA climate scientist Swain added, “and that has been the case really ever since…
Featured: Daniel Swain
StorageCafe
IoES Professor Deepak Rajagopal weighs in for Storage Cafe: in order for EVs to be successful, we must make sure cities – including multifamily units – have charging infrastructure &…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
Salon
Even though California has been bracing itself for a potentially devastating fire season by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on prevention measures, some experts say the state hasn’t invested enough in…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Grist
On Monday, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report that makes it unequivocally clear that human beings have locked in a measure of warming for the planet that…
Featured: Daniel Swain
In the second episode of Berkeley Earth’s podcast “Data Points,” they speak with atmospheric scientist, and air quality open-data advocate Dr. Christa Hasenkopf from UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Nominee: Christa Hasenkopf
Grist
Even though California has been bracing itself for a potentially devastating fire season by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on prevention measures, some experts say the state hasn’t invested enough…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
“The really important and complex point is that places that are already hot — and are going to get hotter — are already adapted. They have air conditioning and they…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
WQCS
Every corner of California is in drought, and it’s playing out very differently in two of the largest metropolitan areas – San Jose and Los Angeles. Climate change is affecting…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
The Guardian
A growing body of research shows that the West Nile virus can thrive in drought conditions in the American West. According to UCLA scientist Dennis Lettenmaier, tools to combat the…
Featured Faculty: Dennis Lettenmaier
Daily Bruin
UCLA researchers tested water for environmental hazards affecting ocean life following a recent sewage spill in the Santa Monica bay. The 17 million gallons of sewage spewed from the emergency-use…
Featured Faculty: Rebecca Shipe
The New York Times
Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study, said that although the findings did…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Popular Science
“I like dogs and cats, and I’m definitely not recommending that people get rid of their pets or put them on a vegetarian diet, which would be unhealthy,” UCLA geography…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Okin
UCLA Samueli
A team of UCLA researchers took home the top prize on Wednesday at the 2021 Liveability Challenge for their work on using seawater as a medium for carbon removal. The UCLA…