A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) identifies the potential power of all manner of waste, with its ability to be a renewable resource of power…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
Santa Monica Daily Press
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…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer and Mark Gold
Featured: Robert Wayne
The US could potentially produce enough energy by harnessing waste each year to power the states of Oregon and Washington, according to recent analysis from University of California, Los Angeles…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
The New York Times
“We don’t trust that a Democratic Party that has reneged on their responsibility, a complete dereliction of duty for the last 40 years, will actually rise to the challenge at…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Finalist: Varshini Prakash
Although there are several factors that play into why the state’s wildfires have been getting more frequent and devastating, a new study, published this month in the journal Earth’s Future,…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Los Angeles Times
“Climate change is the third rail in some parts of the country and here in California we’re more clear eyed about what some of those risk are,” said Sean Hecht,…
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VICE
Managed retreat is a proactive, intentional shift of civilization away from an environmental threat. Some cities are building walls against sea level rise, but UCLA professor Liz Koslov points out…
Featured Faculty: Liz Koslov
In an analysis of over 74,000 wines, the UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability found that when the two were compared, wine experts rated certified organic grapes a higher rating…
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
UCLA’s Daniel Swain in Vegas news talks about the extreme weather and climate change. Extreme weather situations often bring about the question of global warming. Climate experts such as Daniel…
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CBC
UCLA’s Alan Barreca spoke about how air conditioning has saved lives. In 2013, a group of American researchers released a study that looked into heat-related deaths in the U.S. and the impact…
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Chicago Tribune
In 2017, Gregory Okin, a geography professor at University of California at Los Angeles, calculated that if American dogs and cats formed their own country, it would rank fifth in…
Featured Faculty: Gregory Okin
UCLA Newsroom
UCLA Professor Monica Smith traces the history of urbanism through an archaeological lens.
Featured Faculty: Monica L. Smith
NRDC
Pritzker candidate, Han Chen, writes about Japan G20 not delivering on climate change action.
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Nominee: Han Chen
UCLA Newsroom
Making data accessible educates and promotes change, UCLA study finds. “I think information can be very powerful to change your behavior,” said the study’s lead author, Magali Delmas, a professor…
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
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Air quality mobile applications could mitigate these health risks by educating people and promoting preventive behavioral changes, a UCLA study found.
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
Los Angeles Times
Professor Alex Hall was on a panel about sea level rise hosted by Zócalo Public Square. Here is a highlight from the event: Why are seas rising? Around 45% of…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Jon Christensen, an adjunct assistant professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, said the Coastal Act has two goals. One is to protect the coastal environment,…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
UCLA Anderson Review
In a paper published in Risk Analysis, Ohio State’s Christian C. Blanco and UCLA Anderson’s Felipe Caro and Charles J. Corbett attempt to quantify the effect of probabilistic risk assessments…
Featured Faculty: Charles Corbett
Smithsonian Magazine
Although photographs of the event’s aftermath testify to tall hail drifts throughout the city, these monoliths were created by urban flash floodingthat sent ice flowing into streets and culverts, not…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Gefen Skolnick spoke to The Pride LA about her experiences at UCLA and beyond. “I also work with the UCLA Center for Diverse Leadership in Science in order to work…
Los Angeles Times
“Our geography is perfect for forming ozone, and that’s what makes it such an intractable problem,” said Suzanne Paulson, a professor of atmospheric chemistry who directs the Center for Clean…
Featured Faculty: Suzanne Paulson
The Washington Post
UCLA climate scientist, Daniel Swain, in the Washington Post about storms in Honolulu. The cold front associated with the unusual low-pressure zone triggered thunderstorms and heavy rain. The rainfall was…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Forbes
Climatologist Daniel Swain offers some cautionary thoughts about images of hail from Mexico. Swain is a climate scientist at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). He told me in a…
Featured: Daniel Swain
“These enormous #hail drifts are almost certainly the result of an urban flash flood during hail-producing thunderstorm, which washed huge volumes of hail ice from around city into culverts &…
Featured: Daniel Swain