International Business Times
The University of California, or UC, has divested the last of its $1 billion of fossil fuel assets, thereby becoming the largest U.S. educational institution to do so. Deepak Rajagopal, an…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
Common Dreams
A panel of federal judges on Tuesday ruled that California climate lawsuits aiming to force major fossil fuel companies to pay for their role in causing the environmental crisis must…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
UCLA Newsroom
Congratulations to Tracy Johnson, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology and holder of the Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Presidential Endowed Chair, has been named dean of the division of…
Daily Bruin
The University of California Board of Regents Investments Committee announced Tuesday it has completely divested from fossil fuels. The massive decline in the cost of renewable energy from solar, wind,…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
NBC Los Angeles
Experts say transitioning to cleaner technology for all things mobile including the larger contributors of emissions like ships and trucks will lead to more sustainable long-term changes. Dr. Yifang Zhu…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
In a recent webinar, three environmental law experts including UCLA’s Ann Carlson discussed the current regulatory landscape. Carlson says that, once in office, the Trump administration quickly attempted to alter…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
CBS News
Peter Daszak, senior research fellow at Center for Tropical Research was featured on a 60 Minutes segment called Pandemic Politics. The Trump administration cut funding for Peter Daszak, a coronavirus…
Featured: Peter Daszak
Forbes
Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, and her staff at proposed the world’s first zero-emission sales mandate on commercial trucks, even as COVID-19 triggered the worst U.S.…
Featured Faculty: Mary Nichols
The Atlantic
Hurricanes and wildfires, weather phenomena often associated with disasters, are seasonal and, therefore, inevitable. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, explains that both become possible in May, before usually becoming…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Daily Bruin
A decrease in Southern California traffic led to decreases in microscopic air pollutants known as fine particulate matter, or PM 2.5. This contributed to a 20% improvement in air quality…
Featured Faculty: Suzanne Paulson
Science Times
Yifang Zhu, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability, published a study that could serve as a guideline for the…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Science Times
Since millions of Californians began staying at home and off the roads in March, air quality in the Golden State has visibly improved. In a peer-reviewed study published May 4 in the…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Los Angeles Times
After a summer-like pattern of high pressure and offshore flow prevailing through at least Thursday in Southern California, much cooler conditions and a thicker marine layer will begin to return Friday and over the weekend into early next week, the National Weather Service said. While this may be the last…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The fossilised remains of 22 elephant-sized sloths dating back to the Ice Age have been found. Palaeontologists made the grand discovery preserved in asphalt during a dig at the Tanque…
Featured: Emily Lindsey
A team of UCLA students won first place in the demonstration project category for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s eighth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge, a national competition that engages college…
Featured PhD Alum: Edith de Guzman
Yahoo News
Nanobubbles increase productivity in agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture by increasing dissolved oxygen levels and oxygen utilization rates. Independent research was conducted by Professor Michael Stenstrom, UCLA’s Institue of Environment and…
Featured Faculty: Michael Stenstrom
NBC Los Angeles
The air quality Californians are enjoying during the stay-at-home order could one day be the status quo, if the state follows the instructions of a UCLA study. The study, published…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
UCLA Newsroom
Achieving net-zero emissions in California by 2050 can prevent thousands of deaths annually — in every community — researchers say. “It doesn’t need to take a global pandemic to create…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Newswise
“It doesn’t need to take a global pandemic to create cleaner air and healthier lives,” said Yifang Zhu, one of the study’s lead authors and a professor of environmental health sciences at…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
CBS Los Angeles
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. …
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Los Angeles Times
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…
Featured Faculty: Mary Nichols
Yahoo News
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…
Featured: Daniel Swain
E&E News
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…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
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…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu