IoES in the News
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Daniel Swain in Capital National Radio: Davis Tornado Unusual But Not Unprecedented For California
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…
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Pritzker finalist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in TIME: ‘We Know How to Keep the Balance of Nature’. Why Including Indigenous People Is Vital to Solving Climate Change
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…
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Daniel Swain in SF Gate: The bad news: PG&E power shut-offs will probably get worse, not better
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said the state is unlikely to get enough rain soon to stamp out its risky fire weather. Based on PG&E’s current criteria, that means more…
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PhD candidate Edith de Guzman gives her take on what cities are doing to prepare for rising global temperatures
Edith de Guzman, director of Research for Tree People & UCLA PhD candidate, discusses how cities are preparing for climate change with CGTN’s Rachelle Akuffo.
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Pritzker finalist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in The Spinoff: ‘We are the victims but we are also the solution’:
She was recently named by Time as one of the 15 women leading the fight against climate change. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim tells Kera Sherwood-O’Regan about the effects of the changing…
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Holly Buck in Nature: Books in Brief
“After Geoengineering” by Holly Buck is reviewed in Nature’s weekly Books in Brief
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William Boyd in Legal Planet — In Defense of Live Carbon II: Subnational Leadership in the Fight Against Tropical Deforestation
From California to Brazil, state and provinces around the world are stepping up to fight tropical deforestation. They need and deserve more support.
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Suzanne Paulson in Arizona PBS: ‘Many lives at risk’: What pollution rollbacks could mean for California and Arizona
Experts say there are simpler ways to help fix climate change, particularly using less energy from fossil fuels. Suzanne Paulson, director at UCLA’s Center for Clean Air, said although much…
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Daniel Swain SF Chronicle: The bad news, PG&E power shut-offs will probably get worse, not better
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said the state is unlikely to get enough rain in the near future to stamp out its risky fire weather. Based on PG&E’s current criteria,…
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Blaire Van Valkenburgh in UCLA Newsroom: What wolves’ teeth reveal about their lives
UCLA evolutionary biologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh has spent more than three decades studying the skulls of many species of large carnivores — including wolves, lions and tigers — that lived…
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Blaire Van Valkenburgh in Patch: What Wolves’ Teeth Reveal About Their Lives
UCLA biologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh links an increase in fractured teeth to a dwindling supply of prey. UCLA evolutionary biologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh has spent more than three decades studying…
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Travis Longcore in The Atlantic: The Dark Side of Light
By the turn of the millennium, ecologists were taking notice too. In 2002, the American researchers Travis Longcore and Catherine Rich organized the first conference on the ecological consequences of…
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Alex Hall on KCRW’s Greater LA: How Climate Change Will Affect Southern California
Alex Hall, climate scientist and director of the UCLA IoES Center for Climate Science, talks with KCRW’s Steve Chiotakis about what climate change has in store for the Los Angeles…
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Ann Carlson in LA Times: Gov. Gavin Newsom blasts Trump at climate event: ‘I’m absolutely humiliated’
“As a way to bolster Gavin Newsom as a climate leader, it’s hard to imagine a better opportunity for him than having the great climate denier in the White House…
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Aradhna Tripati on KCRW: We answer your climate change questions
You shared your questions about climate change. For answers, we reached out to Aradhna Tripati, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Tripati says perhaps what’s most…
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Pritzker finalist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in UN Environment: Climate connects everything
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Coordinator for the Association of Peul women and Autochthonous People of Chad, explained that Lake Chad is evaporating at an alarming rate, with biodiversity loss impacting wildlife…
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Ann Carlson in Washington Post: How decades of L.A. smog led to California’s war with Trump over car pollution
Ann Carlson reflects on air quality in Los Angeles. “People don’t realize just how bad it was and how much better it is today,” said Carlson, who’s writing a book…
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Liz Koslov in VICE: We Need to Talk About a Planned Retreat from Climate Disaster Zones Now
“When we see depictions of retreat or hear about it as this kind of last resort, the sense is that it will be forced,” said Liz Koslov, an assistant professor…
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Travis Longcore in The Boston Globe: There’s too much artificial light at night to see stars. That’s a problem
“At the end of the day, the one sort of big thing that you can touch people with is the idea of losing our sense of place in nature and…
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Pritzker candidate Han Chen on UN Climate Summitt
According to the latest IPCC report, the world needs to drastically reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants worldwide. For several months, the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has said…
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Stephanie Pincetl in UCLA Newsroom: UCLA Arts invites the public into the classroom for ‘10 Questions: Centennial Edition’
The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture will kick off the second edition of “10 Questions” on Oct. 1. Building on the success of its inaugural presentation in 2018,…
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Daniel Swain in Laist: Is LA’s Marine Layer Going To Burn Off Someday And Never Ever Come Back?
Los Angeles’s summer marine layer — aka June Gloom, aka May gray — is one of the most unique aspects of living along the coast. It keeps things cool through…
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Ann Carlson on KCRW: Trump says California will no longer be able to set higher fuel efficiency standards for cars
Ann Carlson spoke on KCRW on Trump’s attempt to rollback automobile pollution. Governor Gavin Newsom today promised to fight President Trump’s announcement that California will no longer be granted a…
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Mary Nichols in California Globe: President Trump Set to Revoke California’s Authority to Set its Own Auto Emissions Standards
In May, California Globe reported “California’s top environmental regulator, California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols, has stepped up the state’s war against the Trump Administration, as well as the state’s…
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J.R. DeShazo in UCLA Newsroom: UCLA to assess California drinking water systems to identify risks and solutions
California is the only state to legally recognize a human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water. But this right is not yet a reality in all communities. About…
