Time
Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities that have much in common with ancient urban centers. UCLA’s Monica Smith writes about the history of cities and…
Featured Faculty: Monica L. Smith
Monica L. Smith is an archaeologist and professor at UCLA. Her fascinating new book, Cities, looks at the 6,000-year-old phenomenon of urbanism. She draws on her fieldwork at archaeological sites…
Featured Faculty: Monica L. Smith
A 2018 study analyzing 80 years of U.S. birth data found that high temperatures have a significant negative effect on fertility and birth rates in humans, too. While August and…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
BBC
Taylor Guitar and UCLA’s Congo Basin Institute are trying to save the ebony tree in Cameroon. This BBC video talks about the ebony project and how Taylor Guitars is investing…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
Los Angeles Magazine
Cars clog the freeways day and night, causing a grayish-brown haze that can be seen for miles. But the dirty air doesn’t stop there. According to Yifang Zhu, a professor…
Featured Faculty: Yifang Zhu
The New York Times
Ann Carlson, faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at U.C.L.A. School of Law, says that lawsuits linking fossil-fuel companies to the climate impacts of…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
In August, Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, noted that the administration had lost four high profile environmental cases in the previous eight…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Jefferson Public Radio
A study out of UCLA finds counties not taking many steps to exercise their responsibilities under the state law. Lead author of the study and UCLA professor Timothy Malloy spoke with…
Featured Faculty: Timothy Malloy
KPCC
Mark Gold is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. He spoke with KPCC about water infrastructure. The super bloom already says it’s spring, but next week’s…
Featured Faculty: Mark Gold
In a study published in the Journal of Wine Economics titled “Does Organic Wine Taste Better?” Professor Magali A. Delmas of University of California Los Angeles’s Institute of the Environment downloaded…
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
The Hindu BusinessLine
Deepak Rajagopal is an associate professor at UCLA. Here he writes about EV buses and the “recently announced Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles Phase II (FAME 2.0), a…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
A futuristic, comprehensive environmental plan for Los Angeles has been drawn up at UCLA. It’s known as the Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge. It is being hailed as a call to…
In a January 2018 debate on climate change, Dr. Jon Christensen, an adjunct professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, made a comment that typifies the green push…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
Science News
Despite searching, scientists have not found obvious evidence of a size difference between the sexes in Smilodon; researchers can’t even tell which La Brea fossils are male or female. Size…
Featured Faculty: Blaire Van Valkenburgh
California Health Report
California’s county agricultural commissioners are failing to implement state laws designed to protect farmworkers and people living and working near agricultural areas from exposure to toxic pesticides, a new report…
Featured Faculty: Timothy Malloy
Vogue
21 young plaintiffs—ranging from eleven to 23 years old—are suing the Trump administration for contributing to climate change. (The case, officially Juliana v. United States, goes by the nickname Youth…
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
In 2016, more than 190 million pounds of pesticides were applied to farm fields in California. And while the state has a system in place to protect farmworkers, children, and…
Featured Faculty: Timothy Malloy
The research, released Wednesday by the University of California, Los Angeles, alleges a systemic lack of oversight by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) and county agricultural commissioners when it comes…
Featured Faculty: Timothy Malloy
U.S. News & World Report
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said that drinking water, not climate change, is the largest global threat. Some experts disagree. Dennis Lettenmaier, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles…
Featured Faculty: Dennis Lettenmaier
UCLA Samueli
Yoram Cohen, a distinguished professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is internationally renowned for his water desalination and membrane technology research. In this article, he talks about reverse osmosis and…
Featured Faculty: Yoram Cohen
BBC
UCLA’s Ann Carlson was quoted in this BBC article about the future of democracy.
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Phys.org
Alex Hall, a UCLA climate scientist, talks about his research on emergent constraints within climate modeling. The first emergent constraint was identified on the snow-albedo feedback by lead author Professor…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
UPI
Alex Hall, a climate scientist at UCLA, spoke with UPI about climate modeling. “Scientists and their models agree, the world is getting warmer and the climate is changing as a…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
KCRW
Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability, spoke with KCRW-FM about drought conditions in California. “We have a research group here at UCLA, led by Alex Hall, who has…