ABC News
“PG&E right now is very gun-shy of taking any risks”and doesn’t “want to be liable if something goes wrong,” said Stephanie Pincetl, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment…
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl
“PG&E right now is very gun-shy of taking any risks” and doesn’t “want to be liable if something goes wrong,” said Stephanie Pincetl, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the…
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl
UCLA Newsroom
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
PBS
Propelling this drying-out process are the Diablo and Santa Ana winds, which start east of California. Autumn is the start of cold, low-pressure storms over the Great Basin, several thousand…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Phys.org
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…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Wired
On Wednesday night, PG&E started shuting off power for hundreds of thousands of California residents in an effort to prevent wildfires during a high-wind period. Though this may be necessary…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Inside the Yellowstone Heritage and Research Center is a collection of 160 skulls of adult Yellowstone wolves. By examining the skulls, along with other collections from around the country and…
Featured Faculty: Blaire Van Valkenburgh
NPR
Assistant professor of urban planning Liz Koslov spoke to NPR about Federal Emergency Management Agency buyouts of flood-prone properties. FEMA subsidizes the cost for local governments to buy out homes…
Featured Faculty: Liz Koslov
Daily Bruin
A UCLA student-led study found that drones can be used to determine whether ships are following pollution regulations. The drones could help enforce air pollution requirements by examining ships’ emissions…
Daily Bruin
Daniel Blumstein, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, said he supports the UC’s decision to divest from fossil fuels. He added he thinks while financial reasons are important in…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Lewiston Tribune
Inside the Yellowstone Heritage and Research Center is a collection of 160 skulls of adult Yellowstone wolves. By examining the skulls, along with other collections from around the country and…
Featured Faculty: Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Miranda Wang is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BioCellection, that’s converting plastic waste into valuable industrial chemicals used in the making of familiar products like cars, electronic goods, textiles…
Featured 2018 Pritzker Award Winner: Miranda Wang
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
This may be a tale that only dentists can appreciate, but the teeth of dead Yellowstone wolves are helping scientists understand the life of predators more than 11,000 years ago.…
Featured Faculty: Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Mashable
Temperature records toppled, and some were smashed, over a vast region of the U.S. this past fall week, including record October highs in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Newark, Raleigh, Nashville, New…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Daily Bruin
Fires have been burning in the Amazon Basin since August, eliciting international attention. The spotlight has been focused particularly on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for his potential role in encouraging…
Featured Faculty: Susanna Hecht
Bloomberg
A tool to help solve the problem of urban heat islands could have an unwelcome side effect, new research in L.A. finds. From a managerial perspective, cool pavements offer plenty…
Featured PhD Alum: Edith de Guzman
Daily Bruin
Katz has said earlier in the year that if UCLA cannot transition to renewable energy, it will pursue the purchase of carbon offsets, which allow buyers to offset their emissions…
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl
This may be a tale that only dentists can appreciate, but the teeth of dead Yellowstone wolves are helping scientists understand the life of predators more than 11,000 years ago.…
Featured Faculty: Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Pet owners spend $32.7 billion every year feeding their animals, but exactly what are they feeding them, and at what true cost? Environmental damage, unsafe ingredients and horrific production practices are standard in…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Okin
IJR
The Trump administration’s environmental regulator escalated its feud with California on Thursday, accusing the state of violating clean water laws by allowing human waste from homeless residents to enter waterways,…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Capitol Weekly
It’s time to shift the conversation around parks in California. New data is illuminating the need to look at state parks in communities a bit differently. Rather than measuring their…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Daily Bruin
Organizations like the Environmentalists of Color Collective at UCLA have been working to oppose and solve environmental issues long before the strikes. Liz Koslov, an assistant professor of urban planning…
Featured Faculty: Liz Koslov
CapRadio
There was some wild weather over the weekend in Yolo County as residents in the Woodland and Davis area experienced a tornado and hailstorm. The twister occurred Saturday around 6:40…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Time
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, from the Mbororo pastoralist community in Chad, has spent a decade trying to get international policy on climate change to consider perspectives from indigenous communities like her…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim