BBC
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 …
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
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…
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore
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…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Thrive Global
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…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Los Angeles Times
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,…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Slate
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…
Featured: Emma Marris
Nature
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…
Featured: Emma Marris
Los Angeles Times
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,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Jefferson Public Radio
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,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
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…
Featured: Daniel Swain
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…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
The Weather Channel
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…
Featured: Daniel Swain
CalMatters
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…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Inhabitat
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…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Phys.org
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.
Featured Faculty: Peter Kareiva
Thrive Global
COVID-19 is a health, economic and social crisis, but it also holds out an opportunity for the world to move forward into a more equitable and green recovery. Women climate…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Mirage News
Deforestation is skyrocketing in the country with the world’s second-highest number of species. The cause? Ineffective conservation in protected areas following decades of civil war. Researchers from UCLA including the…
Featured Faculty: Peter Kareiva
Forbes
Dr. Yifang Zhu, director of the Centre For Clean Air, at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment & Sustainability says her team has found a 20% gain in air quality in…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Courthouse News Service
Yifang Zhu, environmental health scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in an interview the reduction in air pollution will unfortunately be short-lived once lockdown orders are lifted.…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
UCLA Newsroom
Deforestation is skyrocketing in the country with the world’s second-highest number of species. The cause? Ineffective conservation in protected areas following decades of civil war. Researchers from UCLA including the…
Featured Faculty: Peter Kareiva
The Washington Post
The coronavirus pandemic has put much of the world into lockdown, with factories going idle and city streets turning into eerily empty walkways. According to Yifang Zhu, a professor at UCLA’s…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
CNN
“We’re very confident that the origin of Covid-19 is in bats,” said Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a health nonprofit that tracks zoonotic spillover. “We just don’t know where exactly…
Featured: Peter Daszak
Wired
“If we want to feed a growing population without fueling global warming, we need to redefine what we think of as good food,” says Pritzker nominator, Emma Marris. After a…
Featured: Emma Marris
“I think overall the general convolutions that long-term exposure to PM 2.5 increases the risk or COVID-19 deaths is probably generalizable to a global scale,” said Yifang Zhu, a professor…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu