With Los Angeles – and the entire state of California – under stay-at-home orders to stem the deadly outbreak of coronavirus, something dramatic has happened to the air in LA.…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
CBS News
“It’s striking just how strong of an influence climate change has already had on extreme fire weather conditions throughout the state,” said study co-author Daniel Swain, a research fellow at…
Featured: Daniel Swain
CNN
With the city — and the entire state of California — under stay-at-home orders to stem the deadly outbreak of coronavirus, something dramatic has happened to the air in LA.…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Beginning in early March of this year, EPA air quality data shows that the city of Angels experienced its longest stretch of “good” air quality since at least 1995. Dr.…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Daily Mail
A team from Stanford analyzed regional thermometers and rainfall gauges since the 1980s and found the number of extreme fire weather days has more than doubled. ‘It’s striking just how…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Scientific American
An analysis led by Stanford University found that temperatures rose about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit statewide in California while precipitation dropped 30% since 1980. That doubled the number of autumn days—when…
Featured: Daniel Swain
In California, a changing climate has made autumn feel more like summer, with hotter, drier weather that increases the risk of longer, more dangerous wildfire seasons, according to a new…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Bloomberg
Though the “great outdoors” may be more distant than ever right now due to COVID-19, small and mediated exposure to nature can still give us a lift, said Jon Christensen,…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Scientific American
Ann Carlson, co-director of UCLA’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, said the Trump administration’s less aggressive rules “don’t make legal sense.” She noted that agencies will need…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
KQED
After years of blustery promises and draft proposals, the Trump administration Tuesday released final rules tossing out auto emissions standards and gutting one of the U.S.’s biggest efforts to fight…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Forbes
On Tuesday, the Trump administration finalized its plan to require manufacturers of cars and trucks – the biggest-source of climate-warming pollution – to boost their average fuel economy by 1.5 percent annually…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
KCRW
The Trump administration has finalized its rollback of a major Obama-era climate policy, weakening auto emissions standards in a move it says will mean cheaper cars for consumers. “More fuel-efficient…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
NPR
The Trump administration is replacing Obama-era fuel economy standards with weaker ones that will allow for more air pollution. Groups are already lining up to challenge the new rule. Ann…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Bay Nature
Last week, in response to complaints and an outpouring of social media outrage, governor Gavin Newsom announced a “soft closure” of 36 State Parks and beaches in California, 26 of…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Forbes
Donald Trump has always touted his rollback of Obama-era fuel economy and tailpipe emissions standards as one of his proudest anti-regulatory achievements. Today, his administration finalizes his own lower targets,…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
The Guardian
The Trump administration is rolling back the US government’s strongest attempt to combat the climate crisis, weakening rules which compel auto companies to produce more fuel-efficient vehicles. Critics say the move…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
In a new TED Talk, climate activist, geographer and one of OkayAfrica’s 100 Women 2020, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, discusses the role that indigenous knowledge can play in combatting climate change.
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
TED
To tackle a problem as large as climate change, we need both science and Indigenous wisdom, says environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim. In this engaging talk, she shares how her…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) is a strategy of the essential importance for chemistry and pharmacy, based on the idea that when we change a structure of a molecule then also the activity or property…
Featured Faculty: Timothy Malloy
UCLA Newsroom
UCLA study offers new way to look at temporary solutions that could buy more time for our planet. The paper sheds light on the social implications of climate change solutions, where…
Featured Faculty: Peter Kareiva
Featured: Holly Buck
National Geographic
In general, higher latitudes are expected to see more total precipitation, particularly in rainfall as the Earth warms. All in all, we should see “more intense but less frequent precipitation”…
Featured: Daniel Swain
With some shots of rain and snow still arriving, and reservoirs at near average levels, the state still remains far short in total rain and snow statewide as it heads…
Featured: Daniel Swain
KQED
In California, a county public health officer’s order can limit access to lands managed by federal, state, tribal or city authorities in an emergency. It’s a step that some counties,…
Featured: Sean Hecht
PBS NewsHour
Peter Daszak, senior research fellow at UCLA Center for Tropical Research and president of the EcoHealth Alliance is featured in a PBS Newshour special podcast on the coronavirus pandemic.
Featured: Peter Daszak