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
Los Angeles Times
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.
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
SFGATE
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…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
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.
Featured: Daniel Swain
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…
Featured Faculty: Ryan Harrigan and Thomas Smith
Directions Magazine
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…
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore
Los Angeles Times
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,…
Featured Faculty: Mary Nichols
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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The New York Times
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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Daily Bruin
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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KCRW
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…
Featured Faculty: Timothy Malloy
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…
Financial Times
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…
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore
Courthouse News Service
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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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…
Featured Faculty: Liz Koslov
Daily Bruin
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…
Featured Faculty: Victoria Sork
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…
Featured Faculty: Mary Nichols
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.
Featured Faculty: Victoria Sork
The Hill
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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“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…
Featured: Daniel Swain