IoES in the News
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Timothy Malloy in California Health Report: Counties Fail to Fully Protect People From Pesticide Exposure, Report Finds
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…
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Ann Carlson in Vogue: Do Americans Have a Constitutional Right to a Livable Planet? Meet the 21 Young People Who Say They Do
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…
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UCLA research: California’s Pesticide Regulators Are Supposed to Consider Safer Alternatives. Many Don’t.
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…
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UCLA pesticides study finds California, counties not doing enough to keep us safe
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…
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Dennis Lettenmaier in US News and World Report: EPA Head Says Drinking Water a Larger Threat Than Climate Change
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…
Awards
Jennifer Jay awarded the Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching
Jennifer Jay, professor of civil and environmental engineering, received the Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching. Jay incorporates a service-learning component in her classes, and teaches a year-long freshmen…
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Yoram Cohen: Clean Water for All
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…
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Ann Carlson in BBC: Why we need to reinvent democracy for the long-term
UCLA’s Ann Carlson was quoted in this BBC article about the future of democracy.
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Alex Hall in Phys.org: Uncertain projections help to reveal the truth about future climate change
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…
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Alex Hall in UPI: Climate model uncertainty helps scientists narrow range of predictions
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…
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Mark Gold on KCRW-FM: Californias need to mindful of drought conditions
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…
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Daniel Swain in The Inertia: California Is Officially Out of the Drought
Research by Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, was quoted in this Inertia article on the end of California’s drought.
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Ursula Heise in Voices of America: Birds Without Borders
Ursula Heise, is the Marcia H. Howard Chair in Literary Studies at the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. She spoke with Voices…
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UCLA’s Daniel Swain in Popular Science: Here’s what a ‘very likely’ sequel to California’s 1862 megastorm would look like
The Great Flood, unleashed 10 feet of rain and snow over California in 43 days at the end of 1861 and the start of 1862. The precipitation formed an inland…
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UCLA aflutter over the butterfly effect
Jeff Holmquist, a community ecologist at the UCLA White Mountain Research Center and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, spoke with UCLA Newsroom about the butterfly migration across…
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Jon Christensen in SF Chronicle: Passage of public lands act suggests way forward on a green new deal
Jon Christensen, founder of the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, write about a recent public lands act that passed in the house and senate.
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Mark Gold in LA Magazine: That Rain We Just Got? Most of It Went Right Down the Drain
Mark Gold, Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability, spoke with LA Magazine about all the rain California received in February and where it all went.
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Washington Post: ‘Most spectacular’ and rare lightning display electrifies Southern California
Daniel Swain, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of California at Los Angeles, tweeted that it was the “most spectacular winter lightning display in recent memory.”
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Rare 5-minute burst of 1,200 lightning strikes over California seaside town
Daniel Swain is climate scientist at UC Los Angeles, wrote on Twitter, “#AtmosphericRivers w/subtropical origins are occasionally very convective in SoCal, but this was most spectacular winter lightning display in…
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See LA’s night sky electrified by phenomenal lightning show
Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, tweeted about the lightning storm, saying it was “most spectacular winter lightning display in recent memory.”
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Why California’s droughts and floods will only get worse
UCLA’s Daniel Swain talks to Popular Science about water storage, flood risk and drought.
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Georgos Greek Wines Official Sponsor at UCLA’s IoES Hollywood for Science Gala
In the flurry of events taking place in the run-up to the annual Oscars celebration, UCLA presented its annual Institute of the Environment & Sustainability (IoES) Hollywood for Science Gala which honored…
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L.A. County Earmarks Dollars For Park-Poor Neighborhoods
UCLA’s Jon Christensen spoke with my news LA about a recent measure by LA county on increasing funding for park-poor neighborhoods. “The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously…
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Thomas Smith presentation + Q&A at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Thomas Smith is the founding director of the Center for Tropical Research and co-executive director of the Congo Basin Institute. He presented on his work and experience in the Congo…
