Thrive Global
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an environmental activist from Chad who advocates for the wider inclusion of indigenous people, knowledge and traditions in the global movement to fight the effects of climate…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
TED
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim advocates for the wider inclusion of indigenous people, knowledge and traditions in the global movement to fight the effects of climate change. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
The Sacramento Bee
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, said wind forecast models show gusts as high as 95 mph along the mountain passes and gusts…
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“PG&E right now is very gun-shy of taking any risks” and doesn’t “want to be liable if something goes wrong,” Stephanie Pincetl, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment…
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl
VICE
“They’re really looking at potentially billions of dollars in damages, depending on how you measure the damage to investors for misleading the public,” Ann Carlson, co-director of the Emmett Center…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
U.S. News & World Report
Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that this development was a “new phase” for Trump’s attacks on California. “The federal government is…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
The Mercury News
“Be prepared to leave before orders are issued during period of strongest winds. Fires may be moving too fast for effective notification,” tweeted Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the…
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Los Angeles Times
The area of highest risk includes the Bay Area and points north, including the northern Sierra Nevada foothills and California’s North Coast region, said Daniel Swain, climate scientist with UCLA…
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CBC
How much did the oil industry know about the impact of fossil fuel emissions on the climate? When did they know it? And what did they do with that knowledge? Those…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
SFist
“The kind of event we might see Sunday and Monday is the kind of event where not only is it seemingly windy in these more remote regions in the hills,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
San Francisco Chronicle
Featured: Daniel Swain
San Francisco Chronicle
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said the winds this coming weekend could be more intense and widely felt than the ones that prompted PG&E’s shut-offs on Wednesday. “There’s going to…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Business Journals
Atlanta Business Chronicle has named our 2019 40 Under Forty honorees. The up-and-comers will be celebrated at an awards event Nov. 7 at The Fairmont in Atlanta. Here’s a Q&A with one…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Nominee: Jasmine Crowe
Los Angeles Times
“It is deeply ironic for the United States to make an argument that California is interfering with the United States’ ability to conduct foreign policy on greenhouse gas emissions when…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
The New York Times
Ann E. Carlson, co-director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles law school who has consulted pro bono with attorneys…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
CalMatters
California’s latest clean air fight with Trump’s EPA is about more than backlogged paperwork — but it likely won’t hurt the state’s federal transportation funding anytime soon. Then last week,…
Featured Faculty: Mary Nichols and Ann Carlson
PBS SoCal
Stephanie Pincetl, founding director of UCLA’s California Center for Sustainable communities, focuses on social and environmental justice and finding equitable ways to reduce human impact on the planet. She pointed…
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl
Bloomberg
The Supreme Court is set to decide soon whether to greenlight state-court proceedings for several cases in which state and local government officials seek to hold oil companies accountable for…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
NBC News
“All bomb cyclones are not hurricanes,” University of California, Los Angeles, climate scientist Daniel Swain said. “But sometimes, they can take on characteristics that make them look an awful lot…
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Daily Bruin
UCLA’s Natterson-Horowitz and science journalist Kathryn Bowers detailed the life of Shrink, a spotted hyena in Tanzania, and other animals in their book Wildhood, published last month. The book explores…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA in Los Angeles, tweeted that the power shutoffs were “a necessary bad idea in the short term” that shifts the financial costs from…
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Phys.org
A new study led by UCLA’s Kyle Cavanaugh of how Florida’s mangroves and salt marshes are affected by changes in climate, both man-made and natural, illustrates the complex interplay between…
Featured: Kyle Cavanaugh
Wired
As the winds move over the Sierra Nevada in eastern California, they flow like water over rocks in a stream, compressing and warming. Slicing through valleys, the winds gather more…
Featured: Daniel Swain
National Geographic
Over the past century, California has warmed by about 3 degrees Fahrenheit, more than the global average of about one degree Fahrenheit. Hotter air draws water out of plants and…
Featured: Daniel Swain