Gizmodo
“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…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Herald-Mail Media
Climate change simulations for California show more precipitation in wet years and deeper droughts in dry years, Hall said. And according to the models, he added, we are just now…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Sierra Club
Holly Jean Buck, a fellow at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, wants to bust up the misconceptions that plague how we talk about geoengineering. As Buck…
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Gregory Okin, PhD, a University of California Los Angeles geographer, estimated the amount of greenhouse gases associated with meat eaten by U.S. pet dogs and cats. In 2017, PLoS ONE published…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Okin
Los Angeles Times
Although climate change will probably make living in California more challenging than ever, Hall said that in his professional opinion, it’s still a good place to be. “There are a…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
ABC7 Los Angeles
Endangered butterfly expert Travis Longcore discusses how monarch butterfly migration is threatened with extinction.
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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
Los Angeles Times
As Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, tweeted, “Indications of a more widespread (& cooler) pattern throughout California. No widespread storms, but looking refreshingly like winter.”
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Newsroom
Three students and four faculty members from UCLA School of Law participated in international climate talks in Madrid last week, advancing their research on climate policies and observing negotiations. The…
Featured Faculty: Alex Wang
Wired
A lack of diversity among scientists may skew how the public perceives the idea of hacking the climate. Given geoengineering’s potential to disrupt the natural systems that all life depends…
Featured: Holly Buck
A 2019 UN Climate Change Conference side event on nature-based solutions showcased collaborative actions between agencies, funds and programs to address climate issues. 2019 Pritzker Award winner and Sustainable Development…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Daily Democrat
Alan Barreca’s study suggests that climate change is causing many women to have shorter pregnancies than they would normally, which could pose risks for infant health and child development.
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Berg and his team compared the period of extreme drought between 2011 and 2015 with a simulated situation where there was no warming due to human emissions of greenhouse gases.…
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Reuters
In Chad, livestock herders are struggling to find grazing for their animals, and crops are not growing as they should due to worsening droughts and floods, according to Hindou Oumarou…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Medical Daily
“We are sort of hardwired to respond to these sorts of features,” Daniel Blumstein, a professor at UCLA’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, said. “’Oh, isn’t that cute,’ we…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
The concept of eco-friendly credit cards taps into behavioral biases that affect decision-making says Deepak Rajagopal, an associate professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
The Fresno Bee
The study by Alan Barreca found that births on hot days 90 degrees and higher were happening much earlier than expected – as many as 14 days sooner.
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
Hot weather can cause a spike in the number of babies being born early, a phenomenon that may harm infant health and is likely to get worse as temperatures climb…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
Baby Yoda certainly matches physical characteristics that inspire caregiving, and it’s hard to believe that’s just a coincidence. “They know what they’re doing,” says Daniel Blumstein, a professor with UCLA’s…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Climate-wise, California has always been a bit of a special case. “Because we’re at the margin of the subtropics—the climate is dry to the south and moist to the north—we…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Axios
ExxonMobil notched a big win in the New York Supreme Court, but don’t expect the victory to inoculate Big Oil against several other courtroom challenges over global warming. “I don’t…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
“California is no different than the rest of the United States in that regard, but not being able to export … most of our stuff to China is obviously a…
Featured 2018 Pritzker Award Winner: Miranda Wang
U.S. News & World Report
Ann Carlson says the case will have “virtually no effect” on other climate lawsuits. “This is a very specific set of facts under a very specific state statute that is…
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EurekAlert!
The editorial staff of Risk Analysis selected the 2019 Best Paper award winners; these papers made the most significant impacts on the theory or practice of risk analysis. Charles Corbett…
Featured Faculty: Charles Corbett