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
Featured: Kevin Njabo
Los Angeles Times
Led by Eric Fournier, research director at UCLA’s California Center for Sustainable Communities, the team analyzed energy use data for every ZIP Code in Los Angeles County, home to more…
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl
Featured: Eric Fournier and Felicia Federico
If you’re not from California, what is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of its weather? 72 and sunny? Listen to UCLA climate scientist, Daniel Swain on Weather Geeks‘…
Featured: Daniel Swain
World War Zero
World War Zero, a coalition addressing climate change, has featured an op-ed by UCLA Professor Tom Smith, co-director of the Congo Basin Institute. “COVID-19 has shown the world the horrors…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
Bloomberg
The court’s decision protecting LGBTQ worker rights in Bostock v. Clayton County could also feature in environmental litigation, legal scholars say. The majority’s interpretation, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, that the…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Giant ships lurked off the California coast for weeks in April and May, their bellies full of up to 20 million barrels of oil. This floating cache, enough to support…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Los Angeles Times
One factor in the expanding drought is the fact that May 2020 was the fifth-warmest May on record. This probably exacerbated the dryness and contributed to a number of wildfires,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Newsroom
Doubling of extreme fire weather days highlights the need to reduce emissions and take other preventive measures, researchers say. A study by UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain and colleagues projects…
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Assistant Adjunct Professor and co-director of the Bird Genoscape Project, Kristen Ruegg has been featured in a National Geographic “Explorer in the Field” video highlighting her work in harnessing…
Featured: Kristen Ruegg
ScienceBlog
The gas-fired appliances found in 90 percent of Californian’s homes cause unhealthy air and drive annual healthcare costs into the billions, according to new research from UCLA Fielding School of…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
SFGATE
The Quail Fire has destroyed three buildings and about 1,400 acres of vegetation in rural Solano County between Vacaville and Winters as of 8:30 a.m. Sunday, June 7 Cal Fire…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Upon first glance, the crown-of-thorns starfish looks a lot like an enemy creature you’d find in a nature-based video game. But its exterior isn’t nearly as intimidating as its appetite.…
Featured Faculty: Paul Barber
The Mendocino Voice
Climate Scientist Daniel Swain believes that as the world continues to heat up due to global warming, people are getting used to new, warmer weather and unusual climatic patterns. But,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Daily Bruin
Wildlife markets are also a hotbed for transmission since wild animals from all around the world are put in small cages in close proximity to each other, ecology and evolutionary…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
The New York Times
We are in the midst of a mass extinction, many scientists have warned — this one driven not by a catastrophic natural event, but by humans. The unnatural loss of biodiversity is…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Scientific American
This spring, as the COVID-19 pandemic led people to hunker down at home, outdoor air quality improved dramatically in many cities and countries. In the northeastern U.S., for instance, air…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
NBC News
California is bracing for the possibility of a devastating wildfire season amid the coronavirus pandemic. Northern CA, which just recorded one of its driest winters on record, could be especially…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
An associate adjunct professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Travis Longcore said the pandemic has exposed the country’s deep-seated economic and racial disparities. “It’s just laid…
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore
KPBS
Imperial Beach’s attempt to hold the oil industry accountable for climate change will move forward in state court. AnnCarlson of UCLA Law and Institute of Environment and Sustainability says “I…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson