Bloomberg
Summer in the U.S. begins with widespread drought already at historic levels across 11 states. Experts warn of worsening conditions once wildfires start. “As far as drought goes, this is…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Hill
Rajit Gadh, director of the University of California, Los Angeles’s Smart Grid Energy Resource Center expressed concern that grid issues were cropping up so early this year. “We’re very early…
Featured Faculty: Rajit Gadh
Trees cover is abundant primarily in rich, mostly white neighborhoods in Los Angeles. But in predominantly Black&brown neighborhoods such as Huntington Park, which is 97% Hispanic, shade is vanishingly rare.…
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore and V. Kelly Turner
CalMatters
Drought resilience depends on location but also extraordinary engineering — determining which California places are running out of water this year and which remain in good shape. The issue is…
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl
Los Angeles Magazine
Some Angelenos are waving goodbye to flying commercial and opting for luxe—and sometimes surprisingly cheap—semiprivate flights. But traveling this way has a greater environmental impact, says David Colgan from the…
Slate
Wildfires erupted this past weekend across 10 states—including California, Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon—as record-high temperatures continue to bake many areas in the West and Southwest United States. “It’s not only…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Hill
The Western U.S. just experienced one of the worst heat waves in its history. Now, a series of wildfires have already broken out unseasonably early, sparking fears that this will…
Featured Faculty: Morgan Tingley
The Hollywood Reporter
The actor and activist co-founded Just Water and has deployed mobile water filtration systems in largely lower-income minority communities. “I’m excited to honor these young leaders in climate justice activism…
Featured Faculty: Marilyn Raphael
WGCU
But this record-setting heat wave’s remarkable power, size and unusually early appearance is giving meteorologists and climate experts yet more cause for concern about the routinization of extreme weather in…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Guardian
Researchers had long forewarned of this crisis and now they’re seeing their studies and models become real life. “The most distressing part? This was predictable’,” says Daniel Swain on The…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Grist
Los Angeles’ future is haunted by its past in the South L.A. neighborhood of Watts. A community that has experienced social, economic, and environmental neglect for decades is now the…
Featured PhD Alum: Danielle Hoague
Newswise
A UCLA-led team has found that U.S. counties with higher exposures to poor air quality, historically, saw higher county-level COVID-19 mortality rates in 2020, with a 7.6% increase in COVID-19…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
New York Magazine
“Most Californians — their experience with wildfire was seeing it on the evening news, watching the live helicopter shots of the Chaparral burning above Los Angeles,” Swain says. “Maybe seeing…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Next City
“Over the past 30 years, guess what kind of weather disaster has killed more Americans than any other? It’s not hurricanes or tornadoes. It’s not flooding or lightning. It’s heat. And…
Featured Faculty: V. Kelly Turner
Popular Science
For many states, summer is off to a historically hot and dry start. Across the western half of the United States, heat records are being broken by the dozen. On…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Magazine
Scientists are tracking drought conditions that are worse than they’ve been in at least 20 years. “There’s a 100 percent chance that it gets worse before it gets better,” UCLA…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Nature
Visibility is important, but to be truly inclusive, we need to create strong, resilient, and intersectional geoscience communities that confront the violence from both within and outside of academia, argues…
Featured: Robert "Bear" N. Ulrich
The New York Times
Much of the West is experiencing the worst drought in decades, a “megadrought” that has kindled early wildfires and severe water shortages — and the seasonal heat has hardly begun.…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Nature World News
Now, for the first time, researchers have demonstrated and made confirmation of the mechanism whereby the particle acceleration takes place – by replicating the process in a laboratory. Just as…
Featured Faculty: Troy Carter
University of California
Wildfires have had a devastating impact on California over the last four years, and with the state in severe drought, another dangerous fire season looms. UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
UCLA Newsroom
Scientists know that electrons and other energized particles that emanate from the sun as part of the “solar wind” speed down Earth’s magnetic field lines and into the upper atmosphere,…
Featured Faculty: Troy Carter
CalMatters
Recent research by UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability showed that 57% of Californians live within a typical walk, bike ride or short drive of a state park. Although 59%…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
CapRadio
The last 18 months have been among the driest and hottest on record in California, leading Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a drought emergency in over 40 counties. Moisture levels…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Studies show that a warming climate is exacerbating the drought, and in some ways may be triggering it in the first place. That means the Southwest is drying out —…
Featured: Daniel Swain