The New York Times
An unusual confluence of weather conditions sent nearly 14,000 bolts of lightning into the dry, hot forests of Northern California in August. But that was only the beginning.
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Guardian
Smoke from nearly two dozen wildfires burning across California will continue to darken skies across the west this weekend, as residents prepare for more heat, toxic air and conditions that…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Yahoo News
Soul Fire Farm manager & co-director and 2020 Pritzker Award finalist Leah Penniman explains how the community training farm educates young people + delivers food to people in need.
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Leah Penniman
KQED
Moisture for a low-pressure system expected to arrive in Northern California late next week. UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain, a weather nerd and Twitter must-follow, made much the same point about…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Hill
The Supreme Court says it will hear arguments over whether the city of Baltimore’s lawsuit against several oil companies can be moved to federal court. Ann Carlson, a professor at…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
KCRW
This year has been full of natural disasters for California: record temperatures, hazardous air, and the worst fire season ever. The fires have collectively burned nearly 4 million acres in…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Scientist
Harnessing fear can lead to responsible behavior & sound thinking. UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability animal behavior researcher Daniel Blumstein discusses the ecological power &evolutionary history of fear, an…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
World War Zero
World War Zero, a coalition fighting the climate crisis, features an op-ed by CBI’s Founding Co-Executive Director Tom Smith discussing the effects of climate change on Congo Basin biodiversity. “Climate…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
Wired
The good news: The presidential debate addressed global warming. The bad news: Trump dodged it, especially when it came to wildfires. “It was kind of interesting that that was the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Desert Sun
Thursday will be the city’s 136th day with triple-digit temperatures in 2020, surpassing the previous record of 135 days set in 1958, according to the National Weather Service. Moving forward, 2020’s…
Featured: Daniel Swain
San Francisco Chronicle
The Wine Country awoke in flames Monday as windblown wildfires closed in on the Napa Valley from the east and west and swept into Santa Rosa, forcing thousands of North…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Washington Post
Record highs and dry land-to-sea winds are in the forecast yet again. According to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, the fire weather…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
“We’ve broken almost every record there is to break,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, referring to his home state, where catastrophic fires…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Mic
“You have to wonder how we as a society justify that approximately 98% of the farmable land in this country is white-owned,’ says 2020 Pritzker finalist and co-founder of Soul…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Leah Penniman
Travel Africa
Travel Africa Magazine featured the Congo Basin Institute’s Bouamir Field Station located in the Dja Faunal Reserve of Cameroon. Aided by local researchers and guides, visitors conducting field research in…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
The New York Times
A new study finds that what used to be a rare weather double whammy has been occurring more frequently in recent decades because of climate change. A climate scientist who…
Featured: Daniel Swain
CalMatters
In a dramatic move to tackle climate change, Gov. Gavin Newsom today ordered state officials to ban new gasoline-powered cars within 15 years. Under the Clean Air Act, California must…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
NBC News
Wildfires in the U.S., Australia and Siberia have driven home how climate change is already threatening to destroy ecosystems in various parts of the world. Wildfires in the U.S., Australia…
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Newsroom
In addition to the vast destruction they have caused, the wildfires that have engulfed California in recent weeks have laid bare serious concerns about the state’s electric grid. In an…
Featured: Eric Fournier
The Washington Post
On a single day last week, red-flag warnings on fire weather stretched along the entire West Coast from the U.S. border with Mexico to Canada. “It really is a shocking escalation,”…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
The worst effects of the wildfires are the direct ones: the deaths, the loss of homes and the destruction of natural habitat. But the secondary pollution effects — from the…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
The Atlantic
A little-noticed indicator was flashing red before any of the blazes began. The vapor-pressure deficit VPD indexes 2 measurements: the air temperature and the relative humidity. In California this year,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
PBS SoCal
Anew documentary exploring environmental politics, which was researched, reported and produced by UCLA faculty and students in conjunction with the Southern California public media channel KCET, is slated to air…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
The New York Times
Daniel Swain, a California climate expert, said recently that he was stunned by the sheer breadth and acreage of the blazes burning at the same time across a variety of…
Featured: Daniel Swain