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Daniel Swain for Washington Post — Pacific storm that unleashed coastal flooding pushes across Southern California into Arizona
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses recent Pacific storm that pushed eastward through desert areas into Arizona after flooding communities northwest of Los Angeles for the Washington Post. “In Oxnard, particularly, overnight…
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Daniel Swain for LA Times — Is El Niño’s reputation as a legendary rainmaker overblown?
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain highlights El Niño’s acknowledges El Niño’s significance in forecasting while highlighting its unpredictability for LA Times. “El Niño is never going to be a slam…
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Liz Koslov for Bloomberg — Who Will Manage the US Climate Retreat?
As climate change intensifies, communities like Oyster, Virginia, grapple with the complexities of relocation amid rising sea levels and frequent extreme weather events. Many wonder whether relocation—or managed retreat—is a sustainable response…
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Deepak Rajagopal for The Hindu Business Line: The benefits and challenges of transitioning away from oil
Electric transportation, despite its high upfront cost, tax revenues foregone and jobs lost, seems to be the best option. The issue here is to make policy to meet multiple goals
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Daniel Swain for Nature — Daily briefing: How to stave off climate tipping points with self-perpetuating solutions
UCLA climate expert Daniel Swain discusses science communications and climate change for Nature Journal. “Climate scientists are ready & waiting to meet the communication & engagement challenges that the coming…
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Daniel Swain for National Geographic — What’s the big deal about Earth getting 2°C hotter?
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses California’s winter precipitation levels for National Geographic “If we could wave a magic wand and [eliminate] carbon emissions tomorrow, we probably could keep [the increase] under 1.5°C…
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Alex Hall for KCRW podcast — COP28 goes local: LA scientists are racing to reverse climate effects
UCLA professor Alex Hall discusses COP28 and its impact on Southern California’s climate for new KCRW podcast. “We’re seeing already impacts on water resources… intensity of wildfires… increases in heat extremes.”
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Daniel Swain for LA Times — December in California kicks off with 80-degree heat for L.A., rain for the Bay Area
UCLA climate expert Daniel Swain discusses California’s winter precipitation levels for the Los Angeles Times. “From late December through about March, I would expect the odds to be tilted greatly…
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Jon Christensen for ABC7 — Report: Dodger Stadium gondolas would remove thousands of cars on game day
UCLA adjunct assistant professor Jon Christensen discusses the proposed Dodger Stadium gondolas for ABC7. “It would really destroy the value of that park.” Expanding and electrifying the existing bus service…
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Morgan Tingley and Olivia Sanderfoot for Scientific American —Wildfire Brought Wolves Back to Southern California after 150 Years
Gray wolves make a historic return to Southern California after 150 years, claiming scorched territories. UCLA ecologists Morgan Tingley and Olivia Sanderfoot discuss the ecological impacts and challenges for Scientific American.
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Daniel Swain and Alex Hall for NY Times — What an El Niño Winter Could Mean for California
UCLA climate scientists Daniel Swain and Alex Hall were both quoted in a recent article by The New York Times. They discuss what an El Niño winter could mean for California. “This is likely to…
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Travis Longcore for LA Times — “How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices”
UCLA ecologist Travis Longcore discusses new study showing how LA’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining, with wealthier areas attracting more biodiversity for the Los Angeles Times. “The legacy…
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Greg Pierce for LAist — It’s A New Water Year. What Can We Expect Ahead?
Director of UCLA’s Human Right to Water Solutions Lab, Greg Pierce discusses California’s water supply for LAist. The anticipated wet year “should set us up again to avoid desperation,” but…
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Urban planning professor V. Kelly Turner and ecology professor Travis Longcore for LA Times—SoCal cities desperately need more shade. Is it time to finally ditch palm trees?
UCLA urban planning professor V. Kelly Turner and ecology professor Travis Longcore discuss the role of trees in mitigating urban heat islands for Los Angeles Times. “As a heat scholar,…
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Glen MacDonald for Spectrum News ‘Just In SoCal’ — California’s wildfire crisis
UCLA geography professor and director of the White Mountain Research Center Glen MacDonald sits down with Tanya McRae for Spectrum News to discuss why we’re facing fewer but larger wildfires—and…
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Daniel Swain for CNN— Hurricane Hilary intensifies to Category 3 strength, threatening significant flooding in Southern California, Southwest
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses Hurricane Hilary for CNN, stating that “multiple years’ worth of precipitation” could potentially fall in some of California’s driest areas.
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Emily Lindsey for New York Times — Ancient Fires Drove Large Mammals Extinct, Study Suggests
UCLA adjunct professor Emily Lindsey discusses the new study she authored for New York Times. The study reveals Southern California’s large mammals did not go extinct due to overhunting —…
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Daniel Swain for Forbes — Startups Think They Can Beat Wildfires, But Insurance Companies Aren’t Buying It Yet
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses the Maui wildfire and conventional firefighting tactics for Forbes.
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Daniel Swain for ABC News — Why climate change can’t be blamed entirely for the Maui wildfires
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses the complex weather and environmental causes behind the deadly Maui wildfires for ABC News. “We should not look to the Maui wildfires as a…
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Daniel Swain for the Hill — Maui fires suggest dangerous new phase for disasters
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses the conditions that led to the devastating wildfire in Maui — the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century — for the Hill.…
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Daniel Swain for the Wall Street Journal — Why Are the Maui Wildfires So Devastating?
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses the conditions that caused the massive and deadly wildfires that swept through Maui for the Wall Street Journal. “A confluence of powerful downslope winds…
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Brad Shaffer for KQED — ‘Moonshot for Biology’ Aims to Sequence a Genome of Every Type of Plant and Animal on Earth
Director of UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Brad Shaffer discusses how scientists are racing against time to create a global…
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UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses the conditions that fueled the most devastating wildfire in Hawaii in over a century for LA times. “The fires that we’re seeing are on…
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Stephanie Pincetl authors Los Angeles Times opinion piece — Opinion: How wildfires in Algeria and California reveal colonial origins of the ‘Mediterranean climate’
In her LA Times op-ed, UCLA Professor Stephanie Pincetl highlights recent underreported wildfires in Algeria, contrasting them with prominent blazes in Greece and Italy, all sharing a Mediterranean climate. Pincetl…
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Glen MacDonald for Los Angeles Times —As Mojave Desert burns, we’re seeing the flip side of California’s weird weather year
UCLA climate scientist Glen MacDonald reveals why California needs a new perspective on wildfires for Los Angeles Times. ”We have to live with fire,” says MacDonald. “We’re never going to…
