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
The New York Times
As two wildfires raged across Southern California on Tuesday, nearly doubling in size overnight and forcing thousands more people to flee their homes, the state’s utility companies are again coming…
Featured: Daniel Swain
NBC News
Hundreds of thousands of people lost power in dozens of California counties Sunday as weather forecasters predicted the most powerful winds of the year and the potential for more raging…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
Extraordinary wildfire conditions are forecast for Northern California on Sunday, with the National Weather Service predicting powerful and dry Diablo winds — the kind that quickly spread the devastating wine…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Guardian
Residents of northern California are bracing for another weekend of high wildfire risk, as fierce winds expected for Sunday afternoon increase the danger of fresh fires in the bone-dry region. The…
Featured: Daniel Swain
CNBC
Wildfire season in Colorado would normally be nearing its end by now. Instead, dry conditions fueled what’s now become the state’s largest wildfire in history. Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Around 1.16 lakh infants in India died due to air pollution exposure in 2019, the most of any other country in the world, according to the State of Global Air 2020 report,…
Featured Faculty: Beate Ritz
2020 Pritzker Finalist, farmer, activist, and author Leah Penniman writes about the fight for food sovereignty for Harper’s Bazaar. “I prefer the term “food apartheid,” which indicates that the vast…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Leah Penniman
The Guardian
State of Global Air report says indoor air quality causing two-thirds of the deaths and affecting health in the womb. Air pollution last year caused the premature death of nearly…
Featured Faculty: Beate Ritz
UCLA Professor and Center for Tropical Research Director Tom Smith moderated a World War Zero Facebook Live discussion on biodiversity with Dr. Kristen Ruegg (Asst. Professor at Colorado State University…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
Featured: Kristen Ruegg
In recent years, Axum said he has noticed a “big movement” among Black farmers toward embracing organic methods. These aren’t practices borrowed from White organizations and individuals but rather from…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Leah Penniman
Scientific American
Climate models that looked at temperature change could not foresee the effects of drought and fire suppression. The UCLA study, which included researchers from the University of California, Irvine, saw earlier…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Computer scientists at the University of California Los Angeles found that current compilers for quantum computers are inhibiting optimal performance and argue that better quantum compilation design could help improve computation…
Featured Faculty: Jason Cong
The Congo Basin Institute (CBI), UCLA’s first foreign affiliate, recently received a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the building of a Distance Learning…
The Hill
Environmentalists are sounding the alarm over Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s comments this week casting doubt on the science of climate change, saying her remarks should disqualify her from sitting on the…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Newswise
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health welcomes nine new faculty members, in four different academic departments, in time for the 2020-2021 academic year including Miriam Marlier, assistant professor of environmental health…
Featured Faculty: Miriam Marlier
UCLA Samueli
The “LEED Lab” course will follow the program developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and offer team-oriented, project-based and hands-on learning. It will provide practical instead of theoretical experience…
UCLA Newsroom
UCLA attracted record support for its wide-ranging research in the 2019–20 fiscal year, receiving $1.427 billion in research funding. The UCLA College, home to the university’s divisions of life and…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
On the environmental level, California does indeed stand out with, among other things, stricter rules on air quality, as well as a carbon exchange system that it shares with Quebec,…
Featured Faculty: Glen MacDonald
USA Today
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California-Los Angeles, fact-checked Melissa Hillman’s viral post and said that fire is common in…
Featured: Daniel Swain