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A UCLA-led study, in the Nature journal Scientific Reports examined body condition of newts across their entire range, from San Diego to Mendocino. In the south, researchers discovered that body condition —…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
Featured: Gary Bucciarelli
Health.com put together a day-to-day, room-to-room road map of easy places to start building the healthiest home possible. Depending on where you live, work, and shop, trying to make environmentally…
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
Los Angeles Magazine
Many Los Angeles universities slid into disarray after schools announced last week they would shut down in-person classes to prevent the spread of COVID-19. For UCLA, which is on the…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Gillespie
The president has overturned a 50-year waiver that allows the state to set its own standards—but California, allied with other states, is fighting back. California’s ZEV program, which requires car companies…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Companies dabbling in a novel food space are attracting increasing attention from pet owners, regulators, financiers and the veterinary profession. Hungry dogs and cats account for 25-30% of the environmental…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Okin
UCLA Newsroom
Research led by UCLA professor Travis Longcore could inform guidelines to protect wildlife at L.A. beaches. “It’s going to be the largest database of ground-based whole-sky light pollution measures,” Longcore…
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore
The Hindu BusinessLine
UCLA Institue of Environment and Sustainability professor & director of Leadership in Sustainability Certificate Program Deepak Rajagopal writes opinion for Business Line on how zero-emission vehicles should comprise at least 20%…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
The Mendocino Voice
For a more detailed analysis of weather patterns and how climate change is altering them, The Mendocino Voice recommends meteorologist Daniel Swain’s Weather West blog. The Weather West blog is…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Link TV
Through UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, students are working on new ways to improve the Los Angeles River. Students are developing an interactive map that shows what type of contaminants…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
The Weather Channel
As the novel coronavirus wreaks havoc on societies and economies around the world, many are wondering if the return of summer might put a crimp in the virus’s spread across…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
Axios
The 163 million dogs and cats in the U.S. ate one-quarter of the 94.3 billion pounds of meat the country produced in 2015, or as much as 62 million Americans did, according…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Okin
Los Angeles Times
A growing number of students and faculty members across University of California campuses walked out of class, held rallies and signed letters this week, as a systemwide movement takes hold…
Featured Faculty: Paul Barber
Daily Mail
Social media users in Colorado posted amazed pictures this week as they spotted a strange row of lights moving slowly through the sky. The unusual sighting was identified as a…
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore
Gizmodo
“It’s virtually impossible at this point for March/April precipitation to completely make up the very large accumulated seasonal deficit, but a series of last-minute storms would still help delay the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Grist
Some climate scientists think that calling climate change an existential threat is misleading. “I don’t think it’s an existential threat to humanity or ‘life on Earth,’” Daniel Swain, a climate…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
This February “was not just merely a below-average month,” Dr. Swain said. “It was, in a lot of places, a completely dry month, which is truly extraordinary.”
Featured: Daniel Swain
Bloomberg
The 21 young plaintiffs who lost their ambitious climate lawsuit against the federal government are seeking another shot to make their case in court, a move that could push the…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
UCLA Newsroom
The century-long battle over water between California’s Owens Valley and Los Angeles is nothing short of epic. The latest chapter comes in a more stoic but important form: a 157-page report…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Okin
NBC News
Huge swaths of California experienced its driest February on record, with some northern areas of the state recording zero precipitation for the entire month, according to the National Weather Service. …
Featured: Daniel Swain
KUOW
The United States produces about 8 billion tons of pet food a year. Nearly a third of all climate harm from U.S. agriculture comes from pet food, according to an…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Okin
SFGATE
The end of February typically isn’t the time to worry about wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area, but amid an unusually long dry spell in the middle of winter,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Nature
Despite recent defeats, activists are optimistic that courts will provide relief from climate change. Carlson and others anticipate that US activists and municipalities will pivot from targeting governments to going…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Most of Northern California is now running below 50% of average precipitation since the start of the rainy season on Oct. 1. In some places, this represents a cumulative deficit…
Featured: Daniel Swain
San Francisco and most of the northern state have received just sprinkles to no rain in what is usually its wettest month of the year – a first in 150…
Featured: Daniel Swain