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Ann Carlson Quoted in The Media Times: 9th Circuit Court Decides Against Young Plaintiffs in Landmark Climate Suit
Ann Carlson, an expert on climate change at the University of California’s Los Angeles School of Law, said what surprised her and many other experts was how far the trial…
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Ann Carlson Mentioned in Clean Technica: 9th Circuit Court Rules Against Young Plaintiffs In Landmark Climate Suit
In 2015, a group of young Americans, some of them only 7 or 8 years old, sued the United States government, claiming the federal government “through its affirmative actions in…
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Cara Horowitz in Time: A Federal Court Threw Out A High Profile Climate Lawsuit. Here’s What It Might Mean For The Future of Climate Litigation
Crucially, the opinion names the seriousness of climate change and clearly states that the federal government promoted fossil fuel use. “It agrees that these kids have been injured. It also…
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Holly Jean Buck on Long Beach Sixth Annual Climate Change Symposium for The League of Women Voters of Long Beach
The League of Women Voters of Long Beach presented their sixth annual climate change symposium in partnership with the Aquarium of the Pacific and discussed the social costs of climate…
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Ann Carlson in The New York Times: Court Quashes Youth Climate Change Case Against Government
A federal appeals court has thrown out the landmark climate change lawsuit brought on behalf of young people against the federal government. While the young plaintiffs “have made a compelling…
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Jon Christensen Op-Ed in Los Angeles Times: Bickering Environmental Groups are Holding L.A.’s Last Surviving Tidal Wetland Hostage
Jon Christensen, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability professor, journalist-in-residence and founder of UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, provides a potential solution to this impasse for the Los Angeles Times.
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Daniel Swain Quoted in SF Gate: See the Potent Winter storm Approaching Northern California
Meteorologists and weather nerds are getting excited about a storm approaching California. The storm is expected to be potent and quick-moving, releasing a burst of frigid air, heavy rainfall, high…
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Daniel Swain in Los Angeles Times: After Thursday’s Rain, Southern California is Expected to Return to Dry Weather
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, tweeted on Sunday that it’s not looking like January precipitation will be enough to reverse the growing seasonal precipitation deficit to date in Northern California.
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Ryan Harrigan and Tom Smith Study Featured in Colorado State University Magazine — Death by solar: $1.6 million DOE grant supports scientists studying bird deaths at solar facilities
For several years, scientists and solar industry groups have documented evidence of birds, particularly migratory species, either colliding with solar panels or getting incinerated in the red-hot light of concentrated…
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Travis Longcore Mentioned in Directions Magazine — A Decade of Spatial Innovation: USC Spatial Sciences Presents 10th Annual Los Angeles Geospatial Summit
The Summit will also feature a group discussion on the topic of “GIS for Sustainability Science: How GIS is fundamental to our policies and practices that further sustainability and the…
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Mary Nichols Featured in LA Times: She Helped Make California a Clean Air Leader. Now Trump Could Upend that Legacy
In what she says is likely her last year in office, Mary Nichols, the chair of the state Air Resources Board and Professor in the UCLA Institute of the Environment,…
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Alan Barreca Study Featured in Daily Bruin
Climate change may cause childbirth to occur up to two weeks earlier than expected, according to a study led by Alan Barreca.
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Pritzker Award Nominator Emma Marris Gives Op-Ed for The New York Times: How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change
Emma Marris is a Pritzker emerging environmental genius award nominator and is the author of “Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World.” Here’s her five-step plan to deal with…
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Chad Thackeray in Daily Bruin — Campus Queries: How will climate change impact Arctic ice levels?
Chad Thackeray, researcher at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and first author of the study, said the Arctic is melting faster than other parts of the…
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Timothy Malloy Quoted in KCRW: Malibu’s Efforts to Ban All Pesticides Within City Limits
Malibu wants to outlaw all pesticides, including anticoagulant rodenticides that are used to kill rats, because those pesticides end up killing a lot of birds and other animals that prey…
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Eric Hoek Featured in The Daily Bruin: With New Leader, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Steadfast in Renewability Goals
The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge’s leadership may be turning over a new leaf, but its goals remain the same. Eric Hoek, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, was announced…
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Travis Longcore in Financial Times: How Light Pollution Affects the Lives of Garden Creatures
Artificial light severely disruptions feeding, breeding and communication among wildlife. Travis Longcore, associate adjunct professor at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has been working on the impact of artificial…
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Travis Longcore Quoted in Courthouse News Service: Experts Sound Alarm on Crusade to Change New York’s Time Zone
A New York lawmaker is kicking off 2020 by proposing the Empire State switch time zones. One of the bill’s Twitter challengers is Travis Longcore, an adjunct professor at UCLA…
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Liz Koslov Quoted in Curbed New York: NYC’s Coastline Could be Underwater by 2100. Why are we Still Building There?
Koslov is working on a book about Staten Island communities that rejected the rebuilding narrative. She recalls the first community meeting she attended in the borough, a few months after…
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Victoria Sork Study Featured in The Daily Bruin: Valley Oak Tree Could Provide Insight into how Plants will Adapt to Climate Change
A study led by evolutionary biologist Victoria Sork examines whether the trees being replanted in the wake of California’s fires will be able to survive a climate that is continuing…
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Mary Nichols Featured in Yale Alumni Magazine: The Climate in California
America’s most populous state has reduced its carbon output to 1990 levels. Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, IoES professor and UCLA Law professor in residence, led…
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Victoria Sork in GenomeWeb: Tree Resilience
Victoria Sork, a plant evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues have found that there is already a mismatch between ecosystems and their foundational species.
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Glen MacDonald Quoted in The Hill: Five Things to Know about Australia’s Devastating Wildfires
University of California, Los Angeles geography professor Glen MacDonald added that higher temperatures also contribute to a longer fire season. “Particularly in Southeastern Australia, that’s definitely been part of it,”…
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Daniel Swain Quoted in The People’s Vanguard of Davis — Commentary: Extreme Weather, Fires, Climate Change
“There has been an assumption that the main thing we have to contend with climate change is increased temperatures, decreased snowpack, increased wildfire risk” on the West Coast, said Daniel…
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Dainel Swain Quoted in Gizmodo Australia: This Was The Decade Climate Scientists Stopped Being Polite
“Imagine a 90s-era disaster movie in which NASA scientists warn that there’s a giant asteroid headed for Earth,” Swain told Earther. “Except, instead of conscripting Bruce Willis to go blow…
