Mark Gold, 55, of Santa Monica, has been appointed deputy secretary for oceans and coastal policy and director of the Ocean Protection Council at the California Natural Resources Agency. Gold…
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Researchers from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute along with UCLA’s Robert Wayne and additional partners are studying both sea otters and comparing them to a freshwater otter species, the South…
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UCLA Newsroom
California Climate Expedition, a bicycle tour from Oakland to Los Angeles — led by UCLA climate scientist Alex Hall — grants riders the chance to experience climate change impacts in…
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Phys.org
A team of UCLA researchers recently launched the Anacapa Toolkit—open-source software that makes eDNA research easier, allowing researchers to detect a broad range of speciesquickly and producing sortable results that…
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UCLA Newsroom
A team of UCLA researchers recently launched the Anacapa Toolkit — open-source software that makes eDNA research easier, allowing researchers to detect a broad range of species quickly and producing sortable results that are…
Featured Faculty: Paul Barber
Featured: Zack Gold
UCLA Newsroom
UCLA professor Robert Wayne was on a team of life scientists to discover sea otters have low genetic diversity, which could endanger their health as a species. “Sea otters may…
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The Guardian
It is difficult to predict how bad the rest of this fire season will be based on the number of fires so far, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at…
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National Geographic
Bob Taylor met Tom Smith, director of UCLA’s Congo Basin Institute, who had worked in Cameroon for decades and knew as much about its forest ecology as Taylor knew about…
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Curbed LA
The Bay Area, however, might see record heat, according to UCLA climate scientologist Daniel Swain. On Twitter, he says Southern California “should still be quite warm to hot—just not as…
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Los Angeles Times
That can be a challenge, since many people want to keep up with ever-changing trends, said Stephanie Pincetl, director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA, who was…
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“EPA’s latest cuts to children’s health research are part of a pattern that could diminish the importance of science in decisions that affect the well-being of American families,” J.R. DeShazo,…
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Cronkite News
UCLA professor Alan Barreca, who teaches sustainability and has a background in economics, studied 80 years of U.S. birth data and concluded that if the Earth continues to warm as…
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The Weather Channel
Daniel Swain (University of California, Los Angeles, and NCAR) has been studying the weather whiplash plaguing California in recent years, as the state lurches between wet years (including 2018-19) and…
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The Washington Post
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 the world…
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KQED
“The weather pattern literally looked like something straight out of January, but it’s May,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA. “This regression back towards winter like conditions is…
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KQED
The winds near Paradise were blowing hard and fast, propelling the fire forward, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. However just a few miles away in the Sacramento…
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UCLA Law School professor Ann Carlson discussed what proponents of the Green New Deal could learn from the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970 at the Law School…
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Daily Bruin
In a yearlong study, UCLA researchers found ocean farming could alleviate a large portion of global hunger, promote biological diversity and minimize the impact of carbon emissions from land farming.
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U.S. News & World Report
In her new book, “Cities: The First 6,000 Years,” University of California—Los Angeles-based anthropologist Monica Smith plums the history of urban settlements, puncturing some myths along the way. While we’re…
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SFGATE
The cost of solar and energy storage has dropped in the past decade, making it an attractive option to some. But JR DeShazo, a professor of public policy at the…
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Even at a time when the California snowpack is 161% of the historical average for April, water experts are concerned about water optimization, usage, storage and conservation. “We’re evolved into…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Long Beach Post
There’s been a growing excitement around the opening of Pacific Visions, the Aquarium of the Pacific’s first major expansion, which will be officially unveiled on Memorial Day weekend. This Thursday,…
Featured Faculty: Peter Kareiva
KCRW
It was Bike to Work Day in LA, but the weather gods had other ideas. A storm came through this morning, which is pretty unusual for Southern California in the…
Featured: Daniel Swain
The New York Times
Remember atmospheric rivers? Earlier this year, they hit California’s collective consciousness in a big way, as the state reeled from the catastrophic flooding, mudslides and pounding rain they brought with…
Featured: Daniel Swain