UCLA Samueli
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced Tuesday its 2020 class of fellows, including four UCLA Samueli School of Engineering faculty members. There are now 18 UCLA Samueli-affiliated NAI fellows. Election…
Featured Faculty: Jason Cong
The New Republic
Yet after years in the trenches fighting the executive through both tweets and lawsuits, California is on the precipice of a major power shift. The Biden team wants Californian expertise.…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Science
U.S. fusion scientists coalesce around a goal for the Department of Energy (DOE), the main sponsor of U.S. fusion research, to prepare to build a prototype power plant in the…
Featured Faculty: Troy Carter
Los Angeles Times
UCLA researchers published a study last month concluding that Californians would probably pay more for energy under electrification mandates, and that “low-income residents of disadvantaged communities … will be most adversely…
Featured: Eric Fournier
Sierra Club
A diverse collection of essays in “All we Can Save” edited by Katharine K. Wilkinson and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, offers fresh ideas, hope & solidarity. Pritzker finalist Leah Penniman writes…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Leah Penniman
Disasters typically associated with the West Coast include devastating earthquakes and out-of-control wildfires, but there’s an epic disaster that could be far worse than both — and it could happen at any point. …
Featured: Daniel Swain
TODAY
In “The Rise,” the recipe bears the title “Independence Soup,” but in Bon Appétit’s print issue and on the magazine’s website, the soup was published under the title “Soup Joumou,”…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Leah Penniman
UCLA Anderson Review
“Green chemistry” laws, adopted by a handful of states and the European Union, aim to reduce the use of toxic chemicals in consumer products. These laws require manufacturers to determine…
Featured Faculty: Timothy Malloy
ScienceDaily
A new study by Brad Shaffer supports a new conservation strategy. Climate change increasingly makes relocating threatened species necessary, despite the frequently low success rate. The study found tortoises with…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
Los Angeles Times
To the average visitor, Los Angeles State Historic Park looks to be an urban oasis — a serene expanse of rolling grass and shady glens tucked between Chinatown and the…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
UCLA Samueli
Clarivate’s Web of Science has named nearly 40 UCLA faculty in its newly released 2020 Highly Cited Researchers, including nine from the School of Engineering. Each year since 2002, Clarivate has…
Featured Faculty: Dennis Lettenmaier
Los Angeles Times
The Thomas fire created a huge pyrocumulus cloud in December 2017. The Mountain View fire that largely destroyed the small town of Walker, Calif., this week gave rise to a…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Voter turnout on swaths of tribal land in Arizona surged compared with the 2016 presidential election, helping Joe Biden to victory in a state that hadn’t supported a Democratic in…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Winner: Clara Pratte
National Science Foundation
A paper published in the American Geophysical Union journal Earth’s Future, states that warming has a more profound effect on both the severity and frequency of extreme precipitation events than…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Grist
Trump gutted environmental protections. How quickly can Biden restore them? Some rollbacks could be easily thwarted with a pen stroke, others may take years. Taking away California’s waiver is expected…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
UCLA Newsroom
UCLA climate change expert Ann Carlson outlines how new administration could rebuild protections. According to UCLA’s Ann Carlson, President-elect Joe Biden’s administration has significant work ahead to rebuild the nation’s climate…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
A team of biologists — including members from the U.S. Geological Survey, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Forest Service, University of California, Los Angeles, Endemic Environmental Services Inc.,…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
Regenerative agriculture is a system of practices that focuses on soil health and increasing biodiversity — and it could help reverse the effects of climate change. ‘Human beings don’t inherently…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Leah Penniman
UCLA Newsroom
Across the continental United States, massive, often-devastating precipitation events — the kind that climate scientists have long called “hundred-year storms” — could become three times more likely and 20% more…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Vox
“I think one big strategy that will be important for a Biden Administration without a Democratic Senate is to have a suite of climate policies rather than relying too heavily…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Los Angeles Times
In the midst of the state’s most destructive wildfire season, California shattered temperature records in August, September and October. All three months were the state’s warmest on record, according to a…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
The New York Times followed 3 small farms where they found people cultivating way more than food. Take a look at Leah Penniman, @soulfirefarm co-director and Pritzker Award finalist tackles…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Leah Penniman
Nature
Genomes trace how the animals moved around the world — often with humans by their side. The largest-ever study of ancient genomes from the animals suggests that where people went,…
Featured: Robert Wayne
Smithsonian Magazine
Colorado has experienced one of the worst fire seasons in state history. Colorado’s fires have been burning since July and have now extended far beyond the region’s normal fire season,…
Featured: Daniel Swain