When the Trump Administration last year disbanded a committee of scientists advising the Environmental Protection Agency, UCLA’s J.R. DeShazo and other researchers from around the United States obtained outside funding…
The New York Times
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a guest on the “Mothers of Invention” podcast which features women of color and indigenous women from around the world in the climate crisis who are…
Bay Nature
In a 2014 paper in the journal Nature Climate Change, climate scientist Daniel Swain concluded that California could expect increases in the frequency of wet and dry extremes, with both…
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University of California, Los Angeles climate scientist Daniel Swain also pointed to the Golden State’s climate and geography, which he said “sets it completely apart from any other region in…
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National Geographic
“Expanding the range of a rare species may be a good idea under certain circumstances, but putting an animal into an ecosystem where it has not recently occurred is not…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Los Angeles Times
Federal engineers have found that a dam protecting the high desert communities of Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley and Barstow falls short of national safety standards and could erode and collapse…
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Bloomberg
The fire-scorched state’s history has long been marked by calamities. But its latest disaster did not come to teach Californians a lesson. “Every crisis is not an apocalypse, and every…
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Jon Christensen writes for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about climate change and California’s wildfires. “We are living in a world of media hot takes. They come at us fast and furious,…
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If you are looking for cool inspiration, meet the Women of Impact — a group that does not hesitate to go where their heart leads — on the National Geographic…
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NPR
Daniel Swain spoke with NPR’s Leila Fadel about California’s wildfires. He noted the damage has been light compared to past wildfire seasons.
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Los Angeles Times
Daniel Swain, climatologist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said the air pressure differential between the high desert and the coast turned out to be smaller than…
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Inside Climate News
“This weekend was a confluence of both bad luck and long-term climate trends, plus those other issues,” said Daniel Swain a climate scientist at UCLA.
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Los Angeles Times
The unusually long Santa Ana wind event is expected to ease Thursday evening. And with it, the fire risk will be reduced as well. The expected 30-hour “extreme red-flag” warning…
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Los Angeles Times
“There’s actually record cold air mass right now over the Rockies and the Great Basin,” said Daniel Swain, climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In…
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The New York Times
Monday’s surprise move by General Motors, Toyota and other auto giants to back President Trump in his fight with California over pollution rules came after days of White House pressure…
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NPR
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain spoke with NPR about the impact of winds now wildfires. Firefighters in California are bracing for more unusually strong winds in the days ahead. Scientists are…
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Alex Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA, told The Daily Beast that temperature increases driven by climate change…
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Daily Bruin
Pablo Saide, an assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, said in his research he has found that the smoke from the fires can have strong health impacts. “How the…
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Fortune
General Motors Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV plan to back President Donald Trump in a contentious battle with California officials over automobile emissions rules, splitting with…
Featured Faculty: Mary Nichols
As a technology, air purifiers land somewhere between legitimate health device and dubious wellness product. Many health researchers suggest that certain purifiers can reduce harmful airborne pollutants. “I recommend that…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
Los Angeles Times
“The magnitude of the wind gusts really [is] going to be a concern,” said Daniel Swain, climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. “The actual winds…
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Alex Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UCLA, said the fires are currently being driven by strong, dry winds coming from the interior west of North America.…
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The Mercury News
“We have wind records going back to the 1940s,” said Park Williams, a bio-climatologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York. “We don’t see any trend one way…
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The theme for this year’s TEDWomen is “Bold + Brilliant,” setting the bar high for our curatorial team to search for the world’s best, brightest—and yes, most daring—leaders, pioneers, activists…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim