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Environmental Politics and the Work of Nevada Senator Harry Reid Highlighted in New 90-Minute Documentary from EARTH FOCUS “The New West and the Politics of the Environment” Premieres Sept. 29…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
In 2001, a team of international scientists projected that during the next 100 years, the planet’s inhabitants would witness higher maximum temperatures, more hot days and heat waves, an increase…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
ABC7 Los Angeles
As wildfires rage up and down California, federal weather officials say the possibility of any relief in the form of rain is slight due to a La Nina weather system…
Featured Faculty: Glen MacDonald
Newsweek
Air pollution from the California wildfires is spreading across the state, with hazardous levels being recorded in many regions. In several areas the Air Quality Index showed regions where pollution…
Featured Faculty: Suzanne Paulson
The New York Times
If climate change was a somewhat abstract notion a year ago, today it is all too real for Californians fleeing wildfires and being smothered in a blanket of smoke, the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
For the better part of a month, fires from across the western United States have filled the skies with smoke and ash, creating unhealthy air conditions for millions of Americans. …
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
In the midst of the state’s most destructive wildfire season, California has garnered another dubious distinction: the hottest August on record in California, according to a report from UCLA climate scientist Daniel…
Featured: Daniel Swain
What if there was a way of pulling vapor from the atmosphere and bringing it through faucets as clean, drinkable water. Harnessing the power of the sun, Zero Mass Water’s…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Winner: Clara Pratte
The Bakersfield Californian
Lung-damaging ozone pollution in Los Angeles reached its highest levels in a generation and set records in other parts of Southern California during the blistering Labor Day weekend heat wave,…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
The deadly impacts of climate change on a hot, hardscape city were clear 15 years ago. This summer, the Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collaborative released its own findings — during…
Featured PhD Alum: Edith de Guzman
Inside Climate News
As fires spread into Washington, Oregon and Montana, the arrival of the Santa Ana winds means more conflagrations for California. “It’s not just the size of the fires, but the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
This was the weekend that climate change, in California, stopped being about the future. The weekend that the idea that COVID-19 was worse than climate change, or fascism was worse…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Washington Post
The Oregon Department of Forestry estimated the Almeda Fire has burned 2,500 to 3,000 acres. As of late Tuesday, the fire was at zero percent containment, according to Jackson County Emergency…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Weather Channel
California’s latest heat wave smashed some all-time records, contributing to another explosion of wildfires that already topped a state record a month before their typical peak time of year. The…
Featured: Daniel Swain
CalMatters
Most Californians are waking up today to strong and dangerous winds — and some are waking up without power. PG&E began shutting off power for about 172,000 customers in 22 counties late…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Psychology Today interviews Professor Daniel Blumstein about his groundbreaking new book. Delving into the evolutionary origins and ecological contexts of fear across species, The Nature of Fear considers what we can…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
UCLA Newsroom
A new 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…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Time
The state is experiencing another wave of record-breaking heat this weekend, and offshore winds beginning around this time of year—the Santa Anna winds in the south, and the Diablo winds…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Washington Post
After one of California’s hottest weekends ever observed, a severe fire threat encompasses much of the state and expands over large portions of the western United States. Yet, in a…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Time
In a Friday tweet, climate scientist Daniel Swain of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, predicted Monday’s new record. He tells TIME the prediction was…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Washington Post
California just witnessed one of its hottest weekends in memory, which intensified destructive wildfires that erupted. Daniel Swain, a climate researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles, said…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
A recent study by the Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collaborative, which is developing strategies to combat urban heat, found that widespread tree planting and retrofitting of roofs and streets with…
Featured PhD Alum: Edith de Guzman
CNBC
A dangerous heat wave is expected to hit California over the weekend and trigger one of the hottest days in state history. “I am seriously concerned about this heatwave throughout…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Newswise
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (FSPH) has joined the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA), a consortium of more than 200 universities, research institutes, and government agencies committed to understanding…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu