Daily Bruin
“We have some (elements of green infrastructure) on campus but not nearly as many as some of the other (University of California) campuses,” said Richard Ambrose, a professor emeritus in…
Featured Faculty: Richard Ambrose
MIT Technology Review
Holly Buck, a fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, who focuses on carbon removal issues, agrees with the broad conclusions of the report. But she says it will…
Featured: Holly Buck
For the world’s most vulnerable, climate change is not a distant existential threat: it is killing people right now. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, president of the Association for Indigenous Women and…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
UCLA Newsroom
UCLA has received a $30 million commitment from the Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation to support a major renovation of the Psychology Tower on the UCLA campus. In recognition…
Featured Faculty: Victoria Sork
Featured: Anthony N. Pritzker
Forbes
Killing the proposed zero-emission requirement would not only damage California’s ability to limit greenhouse gases (where the EPA believes the state has overstepped its bounds). It would cripple the state’s…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Newswise
Richard F. Ambrose, a UCLA biologist and marine ecologist with more than four decades in the field, is available for comment on planned Trump Administration revisions of federal protections for…
Featured Faculty: Richard Ambrose
People, for example, who have taken up the objective to plant one trillion trees on the planet like Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim are the ones who are doing things that go…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Daily Bruin
Jon Christensen, an adjunct assistant professor of environmental humanities and senior researcher at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, said a lack of awareness translates to a missed opportunity…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
USA Today
A new Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos survey finds a preponderance of Americans – Republicans, Democrats and independents – support climate change fixes. IoES director Peter Kareiva finds the poll very encouraging.
Featured Faculty: Peter Kareiva
Bloomberg
Serious legal risks lie ahead for the 21 young plaintiffs who are pushing forward in court after losing their ambitious climate change lawsuit against the federal government. A three-judge panel…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
KCRW
This week, Trump rolled back Obama-era water protections. How will that affect California? In an interview with KCRW’s Press Play, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability’s Environmental Science Practicum Director Noah…
Featured Faculty: Noah Garrison
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, 2019 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award winner who’s been invited to Davos to talk about her work campaigning on behalf of the indigenous Mbororo people of Chad…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Bloomberg
The China model of environmental protection “has been cautious about too much organized society participation,” said Alex Wang, a law professor at UCLA who used to work with green NGOs…
Featured Faculty: Alex Wang
The World Economic Forum on Wednesday said an initiative it is leading to plant 1 trillion trees by 2030 to reduce harmful carbon in the Earth’s atmosphere is being backed…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Daily Bruin
Professor Ursula Heise, chair of the English department and a professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, pointed out that UCLA is making progress at educating the student…
Featured Faculty: Ursula K. Heise
Greta Thunberg and 2019 Pritzker Award Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim are among powerful voices calling for urgent climate action at Davos 2020.
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
E&E News
The decision last week by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to “reluctantly” dismiss Juliana v. United States demonstrated the limits of fighting climate change through the court system, observers…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad and 2019 Pritzker award winner spoke at a panel discussion entitled ‘Averting a Climate Apocalypse’ during the…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
The European Sting
“Participants at the World Economic Forum must not just listen to the Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim – and Greta Thunberg-led youth delegation at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting –…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
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…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
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…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Time
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…
Featured Faculty: Cara Horowitz
Long Beach Post
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…
Featured: Holly Buck
The New York Times
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…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson