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Yifang Zhu Research Featured in CBS News Los Angeles: UCLA Researchers Chime In On Future Of Post-Pandemic Air Quality Actions In California
Amid rising death tolls and the slow down of lives that this pandemic has caused, the improvement of air quality is one clear positive thing that has resulted from coronavirus. …
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Former IoES Director Mary Nichols in the Los Angeles Times: How the coronavirus is hampering enforcement of California’s air pollution rules
The coronavirus is having another unintended effect on California’s environment, hindering the enforcement of clean-air rules that could help protect people’s lungs during the pandemic. “All of our enforcement people…
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Daniel Swain in Yahoo Lifestyle: Driver’s incredible video shows ‘tumbleweed tornado’ sweeping through the road: ‘What a wild scene’
A journalist in Washington is going viral after sharing a video of his experience getting stuck inside a “tumbleweed tornado.” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the…
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Ann Carlson in E&E News: Virus brings blue skies to big cities. Will that last?
Visible improvements in air quality offer an opportunity for climate action, said Ann Carlson, a law professor at UCLA who specializes in the Clean Air Act. Climate policy is complicated…
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Yifang Zhu’s research featured in Electrek: Your gas-fueled home appliances aren’t good for your health, study finds
Replacing gas with electric appliances in California homes would prevent around 350 premature deaths each year and produce $3.5 billion in annual health benefits from cleaner air. This is according…
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Thomas Gillespie’s research featured in UCLA Newsroom: L.A. County’s biodiversity is on the map, thanks to UCLA researchers
Thomas Gillespie, a UCLA geography professor, and his team created the Biodiversity Atlas of Los Angeles, a website that provides a better understanding of the region’s environment, biodiversity, and endangered…
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CNN article featuring Peter Daszak and hunting viruses to predict pandemics
Peter Daszak, senior research fellow at the Center for Tropical Research was featured in a CNN article on coronaviruses. Daszak is a virus hunter. Over the past 10 years, he…
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Ann Carlson in The Economist: Think a respiratory virus pandemic is a good time to cut air-quality regulations?
If so, the White House agrees with you. On April 16th the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final recommendation that it was no longer “appropriate and necessary” to regulate…
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James Bassett in The Daily Bruin: The Quad: Victory gardens can be a way to grow food, sense of purpose during quarantine
James Bassett, a lecturer from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, said that victory gardens, often known as “liberty gardens,” were an effort to encourage Americans to grow their…
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Physical Sciences Dean Miguel García-Garibay and Former Director Mary Nichols Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The dean of Physical Sciences, Miguel García-Garibay and former IoES Director Mary Nichols were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary…
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2019 Pritzker Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in BBC News — Earth Day: Meet the original eco warriors protecting the planet
Indigenous people account for less than 5% of the world’s population – but they support or protect 80% of the planet’s biodiversity. “Our people have survived for centuries,” says 2019 …
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Travis Longcore Qutoed in Tech Times: Elon Musk Says Alcohol Caused SpaceX Engine Failure; Launches Falcon 9’s 84th Flight
Elon Musk, CEO and founder of SpaceX, said on Twitter on Wednesday, April 22, that the failure of a single Merlin engine in the most recent Starlink launch was due…
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2019 Pritzker Award Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in Remezcla: A Few Things We Can Learn From Indigenous Leaders on Earth Day & Beyond
According to the BBC, “Indigenous people account for less than 5% of the world’s population—but they support or protect 80% of the planet’s biodiversity.” 2019 Pritzker Award winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim…
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Pritzker Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim on Panel Discussion for Thrive Global: Rise Up for the Great Reset
Can there be any doubt that a reset of very nearly everything will emerge from this time of contagion and confusion? 2019 Pritzker winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim was a panelist…
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Jon Christensen in The Los Angeles Times: Lewis MacAdams, famed crusader for the Los Angeles River, dies at 75
Lewis MacAdams, a poet and crusader for restoring the concrete Los Angeles River to a more natural state and co-founder of one of the most influential conservation organizations in California,…
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Pritzker Nominator Emma Marris in Slate Podcast: How To Save the Planet (And Still Use a Plastic Straw)
In this episode of Slate’s “How To!”, Emma Marris, an environmental writer and Pritzker nominator, warns us not to fall into the trap of individual guilt. In other words, don’t…
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Pritzker Nominator writes for Nature: On the 50th Earth Day, take collective action for the planet
Reducing your own carbon footprint is not as powerful as calling governments and companies to account. Environmental writer and Pritzker nominator Emma Marris writes “there are as many ways to…
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Daniel Swain in The Los Angeles Times: Global warming is making western U.S. ‘megadrought’ the worst in centuries, study says
A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into one of the deepest “megadroughts” the region has experienced in more than 1,200 years,…
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Daniel Swain on Jefferson Public Radio — Climate Change Leads To More Fall Fires In California
The old impulse is to think of wildfires as creatures of the summer. But that is no longer strictly the case in California. Daniel Swain joins them to discuss change,…
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Daniel Swain Mentioned in The New York Times — Study: Warming Makes US West Megadrought Worst in Modern Age
Scientists used thousands of tree rings to compare a drought that started in 2000 and is still going — despite a wet 2019 — to four past megadroughts since the…
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Yifang Zhu in International Policy Digest: How COVID-19 Could Impact Air and Water Quality
Dr. Yifang Zhu, an environmental health sciences professor at UCLA, and her colleagues examined Southern California air quality from March 16 to April 6 and found a 20% improvement during…
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Daniel Swain in The Weather Channel: Climate Change Is Stoking What May Be a Long-Term Megadrought in Western U.S.
Daniel Swain, a scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has researched the “hot drought” phenomenon in California. “I think this is interesting work and is indeed…
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Yifang Zhu in Cal Matters: As Californians stay at home, air quality improves – for now
The global coronavirus pandemic has inadvertently achieved what state officials have sought to do for decades: Californians have parked their cars. Freeways and highways are clear. And the constant burn…
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Yifang Zhu in Inhabitat: Los Angeles air quality improves amid pandemic
There is one positive impact of the tragic coronavirus pandemic — Los Angeles is experiencing its longest stretch of good air quality since 1995. “With less cars on the road and…
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IoES Director Peter Kareiva in Phys.org: Deforestation surged following end of armed conflict in Colombia
A new study co-authored by IoES Director Peter Kareiva and researchers from Colombia concludes that a failure of government systems is the main cause of Colombia’s rapid deforestation.