LAist
Shopping smart is a part of the shift David Colgan, communications director of The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and co-author of The Green Bundle: Pairing the…
MSNBC
“Oil companies are fighting tooth and nail to try to get every one of these cases dismissed. One reason is they don’t want to pay the money. A second reason…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Grist
All cities hunger for new property tax revenue. But all of these park projects at some point aspired to provide green space in neighborhoods that historically had little access to…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
The present is terrible and the future may be worse, so let’s take refuge in the past. Monica L. Smith as an archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University…
Featured Faculty: Monica L. Smith
“I would like us all to think of “retreat” as not just retreating from unsustainable places but unsustainable ways of life,” Liz Koslov, assistant professor at UCLA offered recently at…
Featured Faculty: Liz Koslov
“They always begin to move out at first light and back to their roosts about 45 minutes before sunset. It is a sublime experience to hear and see them,’’ said…
Featured Faculty: Ursula K. Heise
Down To Earth
Environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaks to Down To Earth about how these communities are solution providers for issues surrounding land, climate change and biodiversity Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, former co-chair,…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
In 2012, California became the first state in the country to declare that “Every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water” when the state legislature…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Time
2018 Pritzker award winner Miranda Wang and 2019 Pritzker award finalists Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim listed in TIME magazine 15 women leading the fight against climate change.
Featured 2018 Pritzker Award Winner: Miranda Wang
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Los Angeles Times
UCLA Law’s William Boyd argues California has a chance to do its part on tropical deforestation by “staying in the fight” alongside leaders in tropical forest states and provinces.
Featured Faculty: William Boyd
PBS SoCal
This system is making a critical contribution to the county’s ambition to become water independent by 2050, an ambition that the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability believes Los…
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl and Mark Gold
Mirage News
UCLA researcher Jon Christensen with University of Utah professor Alessandro Rigolon found policies that might help reduce “green gentrification,” that is, the displacement of residents and small businesses when parks…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Mirage News
UCLA researcher Jon Christensen with University of Utah professor Alessandro Rigolon found policies that might help reduce “green gentrification,” that is, the displacement of residents and small businesses when parks…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Bloomberg
The Los Angeles River only intermittently resembles an actual river, even though that’s what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers entombed in concrete in the 1930s. Since then, its 51-mile…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Curbed LA
A massive “blob” of warm water is lurking off the California coast, and it could mean that Los Angeles won’t experience a true autumn. (Does it ever, though?) UCLA climate…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Capitol Weekly
Jon Christensen writes for Capital Weekly about a 2020 ballot for safe drinking water, drought preparation, wildfire prevention, and climate resilience.
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Daily Bruin
Phasing out fossil fuels in LA County will be challenging for several reasons, one of which is the county’s historical legacy of oil drilling, said Stephanie Pincetl, professor-in-residence at the…
Featured Faculty: Stephanie Pincetl
The Mercury News
A massive marine heat wave that caused record warming of ocean waters off the West Coast five years ago, sending salmon numbers crashing and malnourished sea lions washing up on…
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Newsroom
UCLA’s Jon Christensen discusses his new study of California’s Proposition 1
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
NPR
Squirrels eavesdrop on the casual chitchat of birds to figure out when it’s safe enough to be out in the open and foraging for food. Researchers have found that a…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
CNBC
With the planet at stake, who can blame you for not saving 10% of your income for a future you’re not sure will arrive? While it’s easy to feel powerless,…
Featured: Daniel Swain
While the final toll of their damage has yet to be assessed, enough fires had torn through the Amazon rainforest in August 2019 that a similar outbreak would devastate several…
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore
Daily Bruin
Magali Delmas, a professor and the director of the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance, said she hopes this bill will encourage entrepreneurs to create and promote plastic alternatives. Those…
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
UCLA Newsroom
In an article in Environmental Research Letters, UCLA associate professor Deepak Rajagopal and Amol Phadke of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories argue that, despite fast-growing demand, the potential of battery-powered electric vehicles…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal