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Alan Barreca’s research has found that extreme heat makes babies rush to the exit sooner, leading to an average of 25,000 US infants a year born a little early due…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
NBC News
“We saw a spike in births on hot days,” said study author Alan Barreca, an associate professor in environmental economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. For example, Barreca…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
CNN
The study by Alan Barreca, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that on days when temperatures soar past 90 degrees Fahrenheit, birth rates increase 5%. A 5%…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
Time
According to a new study published in Nature Climate Change, rising temperatures may have a direct impact on human gestational time, increasing the risk of early delivery. To study this effect,…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
The New York Times
Alex Hall and researchers at U.C.L.A. have forecast that Los Angeles is likely to see a sharp increase in the number of days of extreme heat — defined as 95 degrees…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
A new study by Chad Thackeray and Alex Hall at UCLA narrows down forecasts for an “ice-free” Arctic to between 2044 and 2067. The researchers used a new approach using…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Featured: Chad Thackeray
You may not have planned to stay home for the holidays—but our country’s current weather situation might keep you there. Two powerful storms have been forming on both coasts, which…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
“This may be the rare situation where rainfall puts out a coastal Southern California wildfire,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Featured: Daniel Swain
ScienceBlog
Neither Beijing nor Los Angeles is known for its clean air, but Beijing’s air quality is significantly worse. “Los Angeles used to be nearly as polluted as Beijing is today,”…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Forbes
Sri Lanka is an island nation with more than 8000 square miles of territorial waters, home to 29 documented species of marine mammals, including five large whale species – but…
Featured Pritzker Award Finalist: Asha de Vos
Legal Planet
Ann Carlson writes for Legal Planet: “…We will not have expansive policy to tackle climate change until Congress acts. And Congress won’t act unless the Democrats can take the Senate…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Redding Record Searchlight
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and author of the Weather West blog, posted a satellite image of the cyclone and tweeted admiringly of it. “Gorgeous GOES-17 imagery depicting explosively deepening…
Featured: Daniel Swain
A “bomb cyclone” has unleashed blizzard-like conditions in Southern Oregon and northern California. The storm developed rapidly as it approached land, bringing a quick transition into windy weather with high…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Sierra Sun Times
New research led by UCLA 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…
Featured Faculty: Victoria Sork
University of California
Neither Beijing nor Los Angeles is known for its clean air, but Beijing’s air quality is significantly worse. “Los Angeles used to be nearly as polluted as Beijing is today,”…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Mongabay
Using amateur video shared on social media, marine biologist Asha de Vos identified the animal as a southern elephant seal, named for its nose that resembles an elephant’s trunk. The…
Featured Pritzker Award Finalist: Asha de Vos
Los Angeles Times
“This is already pretty much the latest fire season I think that anyone can remember in the northern part of the state.”
Featured: Daniel Swain
Legal Planet
Many are worried insurance may become unaffordable or unavailable in high-risk wildfire areas, making it impossible for homeowners to obtain mortgages. Sean Hecht examines the question as it applies to…
Featured: Sean Hecht
UCLA Newsroom
New research led by UCLA evolutionary biologist Victoria Sork examines whether valley oak trees being replanted in the wake of California’s fires will be able to survive a climate that…
Featured Faculty: Victoria Sork
Drought-stricken California seems an unlikely location for a flood of biblical proportions, but the US Geological Survey has repeatedly that a rare storm event, known as an “ARkStorm” could dump…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Press Democrat
Much of coastal northern and central California is experiencing its driest autumn on record, according to Daniel Swain’s California Weather Blog. The full three-month season, September through November, likely will…
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Newsroom
“Los Angeles used to be nearly as polluted as Beijing is today,” said Yifang Zhu, co-lead author of the study and professor of environmental health sciences at the Fielding School.…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
UCLA Newsroom
Magali Delmas and PhD candidate Emma Barnosky use behavior science to foster goals ranging from energy conservation to community solidarity.
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
Featured PhD Alum: Emma Barnosky
A California Coastal Conservancy study indicates low- and middle-income households, people of color, and younger people are less likely to stay along the coast overnight. “The high-level conclusion is that…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen