CBS News
Dr. Daniel Swain is a climate scientist in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. “The biggest concern regarding these incoming storms is…
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UCLA Newsroom
On behalf of members of Congress, five UCLA faculty members file amicus brief on vehicle pollution rules. Cara Horowitz is co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at…
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Bloomberg
The Biden administration has plenty of options to reverse unfriendly regulations. Not all of them are fast. “At the end of the day the Trump administration’s attacks on environmental law…
Featured Faculty: Cara Horowitz
The Guardian
Unusually warm and dry conditions coupled with powerful wind gusts have ignited a spate of winter wildfires that call into question the idea that California has a “fire season” at all…
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The New York Times
The court heard arguments on a technical legal question in a case that demands fossil fuel companies help pay for the costs of dealing with climate change and could help…
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Axios
“Even when the rains return, the temperatures are not going to go back to what they used to be,” Daniel Swain, a U.C.L.A. climate scientist, tells Axios. “The overall scarcity…
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Audubon
Purple Martins exposed to bright nighttime light migrated eight days early—which could lead to starvation at their breeding grounds. Travis Longcore, a UCLA biologist who studies the wildlife impacts of…
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Desiree Felix, a graduating senior with a major in environmental science and minors in environmental systems and society and food studies, received the 2020 Marcie Rothman Centennial Scholars Undergraduate Scholarship…
UCLA Newsroom
In a paper published Jan. 13 in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science, the researchers cite more than 150 scientific studies and conclude, “That we are already on the path of…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
New Scientist
A new study co-authored by Robert Eagle provides evidence for how both ocean acidification and warming interact to harm the corals even more than the sum of their parts would…
Featured Faculty: Robert Eagle
UCLA Newsroom
A team of 10 UCLA professors has earned a $956,000 award for a project that will combine their expertise in engineering, urban planning, public health and environmental law to address…
Featured Faculty: David P. Eisenman, Cara Horowitz and Travis Longcore
Grist
Beyond their stark ideological contrasts to President Donald Trump’s agency heads, President-elect Biden’s top-level nominees also appear to signal the new administration’s plans to embed climate policies at the state…
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Mic
If America’s 163+ million dogs and cats were their own country, they’d rank fifth in worldwide meat consumption, according to a 2017 study by Gregory S. Okin, a professor at…
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Time
2020 was a year of extreme weather around the world. Hot and dry conditions drove record-setting wildfires through vast areas of Australia, California and Brazil and Siberia. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA focused on…
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The Guardian
2020 was the state’s worst wildfire season on record. By the end of it, the flames had killed 31 people, destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 buildings and burned a…
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Axios
2020 has been an extraordinary year for wildfires on the U.S. West Coast and around the world, but you should expect more of the same this decade and in years…
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This year became one for the record books for yet another reason: The turbulent weather of 2020 smashed numerous records, from storms to wildfires to heat waves. California’s massive fire activity…
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Los Angeles Times
“While we support environmental justice goals, as air pollution researchers with a century of experience between us, we are dismayed at the single-issue attacks on Mary Nichols’ distinguished record that…
Featured Faculty: Arthur Winer and Mary Nichols
Los Angeles Times
Through four governors, two Obama terms and the Trump administration, Mary Nichols has led the charge to clean up California’s smog and fight climate change. In the process, she has…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Forbes
Achieving a gas-free future requires ignoring the cost impacts on the poor and middle class. Last month, a report by researchers, Stephanie Pincetl and Eric Fournier, at the UCLA Institute…
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The US is taking definitive steps toward nuclear fusion, with plans to build its first plant by the 2040s. “The community urgently wants to move forward with fusion on a…
Featured Faculty: Troy Carter
VICE
Daniel Swain studies climate change at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and is dedicated to helping us understand our warming planet. Whether hiding from the smoke or sheltering…
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Ahead of the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, artists from the Pacific islands call for the international community to urgently defund the fossil fuel industry amidst the dual crises…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
Daily Bruin
UCLA is home to some of the world’s leading researchers and experts – better known to students as professors. Jennifer Jay, a civil and environmental engineering professor has taught a…
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