Inside Climate News
Despite the rising risks, it’s important to understand that, “in the physical climate system, there are no scientists claiming that there is a magical threshold that we breach or don’t…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
“I’m so glad that these kinds of pieces are getting written and that they’re laying out this sort of agenda for research and practice and thinking around these like very…
Featured Faculty: Liz Koslov
Los Angeles Times
The heat wave and the tropical storm were probably related. As Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, says, the storm not only broke the heat wave, it also played…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Red-eared sliders are the most commonly traded pet turtles in the world, but are often released into the wild by disgruntled owners when they get too big to handle. Thanks…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
The Guardian
Creamy asphalt sealant lowers the surface temperature of a road roughly 10F. But the shade from a mature, leafy tree can provide more like 40-50F (22-28C) of cooling power, on…
Featured PhD Alum: Edith de Guzman
Time
Most non-electric motor vehicles emit multiple airborne pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, hydrocarbons, and ultrafine chemical particles. Breathing in these pollutants can cause or contribute to a wide range of health problems, from…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
The Washington Post
There is a danger of “apocalypticism,” said Jon Christensen, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who has written extensively on the use and misuse…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, 2019 Pritzker candidate, was quoted in Landscape News about legal recognition for Indigenous peoples and local communities. Offering a response to this research was Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim,…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
UCLA Newsroom
Magali Delmas, an environmental economist and professor in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and her co-author David Colgan, have recently won the 2019 Organizations and the Natural…
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
EcoWatch
“It has been an extraordinary year and an extraordinary summer in the far north,” University of California, Los Angeles climate scientist Daniel Swain told National Geographic.
Featured: Daniel Swain
Rome News-Tribune
Even during the days when China absorbed the bulk of American recyclables, much of what they purchased wasn’t actually recycled. After more desirable materials were gleaned, some of it was…
University of California
UCLA scientists are leading a $10 million project to help California officials make ecologically wise decisions as the state continues to confront the effects of climate change. The California Conservation Genomics…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer, Mark Gold and Victoria Sork
National Geographic
“It has been an extraordinary year and an extraordinary summer in the far north,” says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lightning in the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Smithsonian Magazine
It’s an indication that things are changing rapidly in the Arctic, UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain tells Matt Simon at Wired. He explains that typically convective storm clouds need to…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Wired
“It’s this stable layer in the atmosphere that acts essentially as a lid on these convective clouds,” says UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. One of these convective clouds needs to…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
Even during the days when China absorbed the bulk of American recyclables, much of what they purchased wasn’t actually recycled. After more desirable materials were gleaned, some of it was…
The Wall Street Journal
In the long-term, it’s not sustainable,” said Dr. Travis Longcore, an adjunct professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
Featured Faculty: Travis Longcore
CBS Los Angeles
Dr. Bradley Shaffer from UCLA talks $10 million California conservation project.
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
Reuters
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, president of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad, said women in her largely desert nation were not allowed to own land but were confined…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Los Angeles Times
Ann Carlson is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law at the UCLA School of Law and faculty co-director of the UCLA Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
The LA County Board of Supervisors approved a new sustainability plan this week, affecting the 88 individual cities and the 10 million people living in the county. The plan includes…
UCLA IoES board co chair, Lawrence Bender, is featured in Polo De’Marco magazine. He talks about his work at UCLA and beyond.
Featured: Lawrence Bender
Phys.org
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, coordinator of the Indigenous Women and Peoples Association of Chad, works with women farmers in the landlocked African nation. “There’s a lack of recognition of land rights…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, coordinator of the Indigenous Women and Peoples Association of Chad, works with women farmers in the landlocked African nation. “There’s a lack of recognition of land rights…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim