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As if August’s heat wave wasn’t enough, Labor Day weekend will bring yet another grueling stretch of triple-digit temperatures. “[It] will probably be a bit more tolerable than during the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The latest UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine's Global Health Program (GHP) newsletter features Professor Tom Smith and his ongoing research on the connection between climate change and coronaviruses. The…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
Grist
If it seems like the wildfire season is getting worse and worse with each passing year, that’s not just your perception. It’s still early in California’s wildfire season, yet 2020…
Featured: Daniel Swain
August was Tucson’s hottest month ever recorded, with sizzling temperatures breaking the previous record — set in July. That means a greater fraction of solar energy goes directly into heating…
Featured: Daniel Swain
NPR
Firefighters in California continue to battle the wildfires burning across the state. To talk about those questions, as well as the ongoing debate about equal pay and opportunities for formerly incarcerated firefighters,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Newsroom
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Marilyn N. Raphael, the new interim director of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability! She is a Trinidadian climatologist &professor at the department…
Featured Faculty: Marilyn Raphael
SFGATE
It’s about to get hot, sizzling hot. Saturday will mark the start of a robust warming trend with inland temperatures climbing into the 100s over the three-day Labor Day weekend, according…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Conversation
The climate strike movement has grown into a network of global campaigns focused on systemic change to tackle the climate crisis. In the process, young people have outgrown the mainstream…
Featured 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist: Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
UCLA Newsroom
Nick Russo is one of nine UCLA graduate students awarded a 2020 Fulbright-Hays study abroad fellowship. Russo’s research in Cameroon investigates the movements of hornbills (large, seed-dispersing birds) in response…
Featured: Nick Russo
EcoWatch
One of the many wildfires raging through California has destroyed a sanctuary for endangered condors, and the fate of at least four of the birds remains unknown. However, University of California, Los Angeles scientist Daniel Swain said…
Featured: Daniel Swain
KQED
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and a prolific chronicler of California’s increasingly wild weather, discussed the impact of climate change on wildfires on KQED’s Forum radio program on Tuesday. Swain and other scientists…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
Which leaves what Daniel Swain, a California climate expert, told the New York Times one smaller-scale fix to the wildfire crisis. Communities and homeowners themselves can better prepare by clearing fire breaks or…
Featured: Daniel Swain
KQED
Record-breaking heat, dry vegetation, and lightning each played a role in sparking wildfires that have burnt more than one million acres across California. But to what extent were these factors…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
Tuesday: The vast scale of wildfires rampaging across the state is an indication of what’s to come. What’s different this year, officials and experts said on Monday, isn’t just that…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Bloomberg
Unexpected bad news hit California more than 11,000 times last week. That’s the estimated number of lightning strikes that unleashed two of the biggest fires in state history. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
More than 7,000 fires have chewed through 1.4 million acres this year, making this fire season one of the most active ever. “I’m running out of superlatives,” said Daniel Swain,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
San Francisco Chronicle
Temperatures will hover around the mid-70s inland and across the East Bay, reaching the mid-90s in cities like Livermore. Winds weren’t predicted to hamper the ongoing firefights, with “no strong…
Featured: Daniel Swain
San Francisco Chronicle
In the past week, the extent and complexity of the blazes have stretched California’s firefighting resources to the limit. Some of the larger, more remote fires may still be burning…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Inside Climate News
The wildfires that exploded over the past few days in California and Colorado show clear influences of global warming, climate scientists say, and evidence of how a warming and drying…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Vox
A stunning, sudden surge of wildfires is burning through California, threatening towns and sending choking smoke over major cities and across much of the United States. It’s creating an epic…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Mercury News
“Global warming is making extreme heat waves more intense and likely, and climate change is making California fire risk worse,” said Daniel L. Swain, a climate scientist at the University…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Legal Planet
The detailed Rx for Hot Cities report, released this year by local nonprofit TreePeople and a group of researchers and urban practitioners called the Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collective, suggests that if Los…
Featured PhD Alum: Edith de Guzman
MIT Technology Review
Over the last four decades, the combined forces of higher temperatures and lower precipitation levels have already doubled the risk of extreme wildfire conditions in California during the fall, according…
Featured: Daniel Swain
San Francisco Chronicle
Featured: Daniel Swain