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
Los Angeles Times
Chances of beneficial rain in Northern California have largely done a vanishing act, the National Weather Service said. After a brief respite, Southern California returns to temperatures that are well…
Featured: Daniel Swain
By weakening clean air and water standards, rolling back regulations, and allowing more drilling on both federal lands and waters, Trump’s EPA is just making it easier for polluters to…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
BBC
Unesco threatened to place Machu Picchu on its List of World Heritage in Danger in 2016 because of the unsustainable ways in which the site was being run. Prof. Deepak…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
Bloomberg
Baltimore sued oil companies over local climate impacts and the U.S. Supreme Court last week added an important climate change case to its docket, giving oil and gas companies another…
Featured: Sean Hecht
Yahoo News
Soul Fire Farm, is a “BIPoC-centered community farm” — the acronym standing for Black, Indigenous and People of Color. The 80-acre (32-hectare) farm was founded in 2011 by an African-American…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Leah Penniman