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…
Featured: J.R. DeShazo
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
Nature
Luciana Alves co-authored (through the GFBI consortium) a paper led by Brian Steidinger (Stanford) that hit Nature’s front cover. They present a global map of the symbiotic status of the world’s…
Featured: Luciana Alves
Science
For nearly 5 years, Katherine Moseby, Michael Letnic at UNSW and Daniel Blumstein at the University of California, Los Angeles, have been placing bilbies and another threatened species into large fenced…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Forbes
Tom Smith, professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has research interests in evolutionary biology and conservation. Smith has worked in Cameroon for more than 30 years seeking win-wins…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
Monica L. Smith, professor of anthropology at UCLA, talks about her book, Cities: The First 6,000 Years.
Featured Faculty: Monica L. Smith
SeafoodSource
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have just published one of the first comprehensive global evaluations of the potential for sustainable aquaculture under current governance, policy and…
Featured Faculty: Peter Kareiva
SFGATE
“Some fairly unusual mid-May precipitation expected across a big chunk of the Western U.S., including California!” tweeted Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. “Unsettled pattern may continue for 10+…
Featured: Daniel Swain
UCLA Newsroom
A UCLA-led study published in the journal Climatic Change found that college students who learned more about the environmental impact of their food choices made dietary changes that are better for…
Featured Faculty: Jennifer Jay
CBS News
UCLA’s Tom Smith spoke with CBS about a new United Nations report that says nature is essential for our existence and a good quality of life, but point to a…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
Monica Smith, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, argues that many of the fundamentals of cities themselves are basically the same as they were several thousand years…
Featured Faculty: Monica L. Smith
Monica L. Smith, a professor of anthropology at UCLA, specializes in the history of cities with a focus on ancient urban development on the Indian subcontinent. She is the author…
Featured Faculty: Monica L. Smith
Today, more than half the world’s population lives in cities, and it’s predicted that by 2030, 60% of the population of China, 87% of Americans, and 92% in the United…
Featured Faculty: Monica L. Smith
KCRW
“The state has, in what I tend to call the second wave of climate policies, gone back through and integrated a social justice or environmental equity component in almost every…
Featured: J.R. DeShazo
In 2016, Taylor partnered with the Congo Basin Institute to learn more about ebony ecology. The collaboration took form as The Ebony Project and has since produced groundbreaking research, providing…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and it’s predicted that by 2030, 60% of the population in China, 87% of Americans, and 92% of residents…
Featured Faculty: Monica L. Smith
J.R. DeShazo named an inaugural member of the executive committee of the new research entity. Academic experts have formed an independent committee to advise U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policies after…
Featured: J.R. DeShazo
Daily Bruin
Allison Carruth, a faculty member in the English department and the Institute for Society and Genetics, said the most prominent data surrounding the harmful effects of toxic chemicals used in…
MIT Technology Review
Holly Jean Buck is a fellow at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. This article is an adapted excerpt from her upcoming book After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and…
Featured: Holly Buck
“One thing is clear–we’ve only got this one planet. So we’ve gotta take care of her. And while we figure it out, we’ve all gotta eat. But what’s the best diet,…
Featured Faculty: Jennifer Jay
It is well known that oil can be a curse rather than a blessing to resource-rich countries. However, one key aspect omitted from the discussion is how it affects gender rights…
Featured Faculty: Michael Ross