Mashable
One of these many blazes, the Dolan Fire, is a grim scene on the normally pleasant explore.org wildlife webcams in the Ventana Wildlife Society’s Condor Sanctuary, located some two miles from the Pacific…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Ventura County Star
California still has weeks or months to go before its peak fire season as crews battle hundreds of blazes sparked by extreme heat and intense lightning. A massive heat wave baked…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Guardian
Hundreds of fires, stoked by a searing heatwave, prompt governor to declare a state of emergency. “It’s kind of an overwhelming fire siege,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
Many of the fires burning unchecked across the Bay Area and Northern California have been caused by lightning strikes and fueled by extremely hot weather. This moisture is why so many of the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
CBS Los Angeles
As temperatures across California hit triple-digits, a local scientist warns that this hot spell could be “one of the biggest heat waves we’ve seen this decade.” “We’re going to see…
Featured: Daniel Swain
An EVgo station in Baker, Calif., promises a refueling experience that’s about as close to a gas station for EVs as currently possible. Rajit Gadh, director of the UCLA Smart…
Featured Faculty: Rajit Gadh
The Press Democrat
PG&E executives claim shutting off the power is still an essential tool for preventing wildfires and Californians can expect to lose power during risky fire weather again. California’s warmest years…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
Muir, a monumental figure in American environmentalism and a Sierra Club founder, traded in “deeply harmful racist stereotypes,” the organization said. “The Muir ideal of the lone white man at…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
SFist
The sheer number of things named after famed environmentalist John Muir in California makes for widespread implications if and when it comes time to remove his name from places of…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
San Francisco Chronicle
California’s wild weather swings, from pounding rain to drought and from fires to floods, are widely expected to worsen as the climate warms. A new study shows just how severe…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
U.S. government data shows that so far, 2020 is the second-hottest year on record globally, trailing only 2016. “Heat actually has a lot of morbidity and mortality that I think goes under-recognized,”…
Featured: Daniel Swain
We send our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Peter Kareiva as he takes on his new role as president and CEO of the Aquarium of the Pacific. Dr. Kareiva will step…
Featured Faculty: Peter Kareiva
California scientists and air quality officials said today that the Trump administration’s decision to not strengthen health standards for a key ingredient of smog fails to protect public health, particularly…
Smithsonian Magazine
The high-pressure system is causing days on end of unusually hot weather across most of the continental U.S. More than three-quarters of the United States is in the midst of…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Wired
A massive, intense heat wave is settling over the continental US. The ravages of the COVID pandemic are going to make it all the more deadly. A heat dome “is…
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Newsroom
Two UCLA studies of ocean mollusks shed light on how new species develop. “This is the first time that anyone has seen this, but no one has ever looked,” said…
Featured Faculty: Paul Barber
KQED
Microclimates may be more pronounced in other parts of the Bay Area, like Oakland and the South Bay, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with joint affiliations with UCLA, the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Phys.org
New UCLA research indicates that an evolutionary phenomenon never before observed among marine life could help explain why there is such immense biodiversity in the world’s coral reefs and the…
Featured Faculty: Paul Barber
The New York Times
With swordlike canines, the saber-tooth cat is widely thought to have waited in silence before lunging and dealing devastating wounds to the soft throats of the large animals that it…
Featured Faculty: Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Salon
Two new lawsuits from Minnesota and Washington, D.C. hint that climate lawsuits against Big Oil might be mounting a comeback. William Boyd, a law professor at the University of California,…
Featured Faculty: William Boyd
UCLA Newsroom
Study finds affluent L.A. neighborhoods use more energy and reap greater benefits from government incentive programs. The energy system, as it exists today, places a larger burden of cost on…
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl
Featured: Eric Fournier
Grist
Two new lawsuits from Minnesota and Washington, D.C., hint that climate lawsuits against Big Oil might be mounting a comeback. William Boyd, a law professor at the University of California,…
Featured Faculty: William Boyd
California communities last month got an important procedural win in their efforts to get fossil fuel companies to pay for climate-related impacts. However, some of the companies facing those lawsuits appear to…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
UCLA Newsroom
The July 2020 issue of the UCLA Magazine features the many partnerships developing between UCLA and Africa. Highlighted efforts include those by Tom Smith and Kevin Njabo with UCLA’s Center…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith and Kevin Njabo