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
SFGATE
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
Los Angeles Times
“That we’re seeing *any* wildfire activity in northern California is extremely unusual — let alone this kind of very active fire behavior currently occurring <10 miles from downtown San Francisco,”…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Daily Mail
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. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist…
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Newsroom
Aradhna Tripati places such a high value on diversity, mentorship and community. To expand her activities, Tripati formed the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science in 2017, creating the first…
Featured Faculty: Aradhna Tripati
Daily Bruin
The UC’s contract with the publisher Elsevier, which owns over 2,960 journals, expired Jan. 1, 2019, after contract negotiations stalled. Elsevier terminated the UC’s access to recent articles published in…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
UCLA Newsroom
“Human Rights and the Climate Crisis” will bring together leading lawyers, scholars and activists to examine how laws that guarantee the rights to life, health, food, an adequate standard of…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
EcoWatch
California is headed toward drought conditions as February, typically the state’s wettest month, passes without a drop of rain. “This hasn’t happened in 150 years or more,” said Daniel Swain,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Following another week without rain — and none forecast through the end of this month across Northern California — the federal government on Thursday announced that unusually dry conditions are…
Featured: Daniel Swain
SFGATE
Daniel Swain, climate scientist, UCLA, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability: “Parts of California are headed for their driest February on record amidst what was already a very dry rainy…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Guardian
San Francisco and Sacramento have not seen a drop of rain this February, and climate scientists are expecting that disturbing dry trend to hold, in what is typically one of…
Featured: Daniel Swain
YubaNet
Despite an early December reprieve (especially in southern California), conditions have increasingly become increasingly dry across most of the state since August 2019, writes Daniel Swain.
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Sacramento Bee
As The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday, a high-pressure ridge lingering over the Pacific Ocean has kept the rain away from the region, according to UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Press Democrat
While a two- or three-week dry spell can be unnerving, said climate scientist Daniel Swain, author of the authoritative Weather West blog, “it’s not a big problem.” More worrisome, he…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
February is typically the state’s wettest month, bringing an average rainfall of 3.8 inches to downtown L.A. But there have been only trace amounts of precipitation in downtown so far…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Sacramento Bee
While the rainy season still has more than two months left, a persistent high-pressure ridge over the Pacific is keeping wet weather at bay, just as it did during the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), Chad is among the poorest nations in the world, and it is “already struggling with poverty and frequent conflict”. Making a reference to the…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
The Mendocino Voice
It’s been a dry winter in Northern California, and meteorologists are forecasting a continuation of this trend for at least the next couple weeks. As explained by Daniel Swain, a…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Legal Planet
Two recent reports try to figure out how to scale carbon removal. Holly Buck, a postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, is studying how technologies…
Featured: Holly Buck
This year’s World Economic Forum brought together a diverse collection of individuals from various sectors—business, government, nonprofit—as well as young people, scientists, and others to discuss how the assembled billionaires…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim