IoES in the News
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EPA’s move to fast-track Orange County groundwater cleanup questioned
Sean Hecht, UCLA Law professor, IoES faculty member, and Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment co-director spoke with Los Angeles Times about the expedited selection of an Orange County,…
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Pruitt NAAQS memo part of broad strategy to weaken air regs, lawyers say
Sean Hecht, UCLA Professor of Law, IoES faculty member, and Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment Co-Director spoke with Utility Dive about EPA Administrator Scott Pruit’s membo outlining…
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Aradhna Tripati named Geological Society of America fellow
Professor Aradhna Tripati was named a Geological Society of America (GSA) fellow at the organization’s spring meeting in April. Founded in 1888, GSA serves geoscientists in academia, government and industry. Fellowships…
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Dismal Western Snowpack Is a Climate “Warning Sign”, Neil Berg
“There’s been a growing body of evidence that there have been some long-term declines in Sierra snowpack,” said UCLA climate scientist Neil Berg, one of the report’s authors, noting that…
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Congratulations to Carl Maida, one of two 2017-2018 IoES Pritzker Environment and Sustainability Education Fellows
Carl Maida, instructor for Environment 185A/B/C (Education for Sustainable Living Program Action Research) has been selected as one of two IoES Pritzker Environment and Sustainability Education Fellow for the 2017-2018 academic year. …
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Congratulations to Colleen Callahan, one of two 2017-2018 IoES Pritzker Environment and Sustainability Education Fellows
Colleen Callahan, Director of the UCLA IoES Leaders in Sustainability program and instructor for Environment 277 has been selected as one of two IoES Pritzker Environment and Sustainability Education Fellows for the 2017-2018…
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Student group raises awareness for environmental racism with forum
IoES Center for Diverse Leadership in Science director, Aradhna Tripati spoke at the Environmentalists of Color Collective at UCLA’s Climate Justice Forum on May 8, 2018. The Daily Bruin highlighted Professor Tripati’s…
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Trump Eyes Twice-Failed Legal Strategy to Fight California Regulations
“It strikes me as an extraordinarily weak legal argument,” said Ann Carlson, a UCLA law professor and IoES faculty member to Transport Topics about a new federal proposal that seeks…
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Big utilities are desperately trying to stick customers for the bills from California wildfires
“This is emblematic of a whole host of problems we’re going to see from climate change, where in the aggregate everybody loses and the question is how you allocate those…
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Precipitation whiplash and climate change threaten California’s freshwater
The Washington Post reports on big changes coming to Sierra snowpack, highlighting recent research by Alex Hall, Daniel Swain, and colleagues at the IoES Center for Climate Science.
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Climate Change Could Leave Californians With ‘Weather Whiplash’
CBS San Francisco highlighted findings by climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that projected increased climate “whiplash” in California with extreme wet to dry weather seasons.
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California’s future: More big droughts and massive floods, new study finds
The Santa Cruz Sentinel discussed the implications of the findings in climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin’s new paper that projected an increased frequency of extreme wet…
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UCLA Study Forecasts a Severe Climate Future for California
The Sierra Sun Times shared an article about UCLA climate research that predicts dramatic shifts between extreme dry and extreme wet weather by end of 21st century.
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Climate change will make California’s drought-flood cycle more volatile, study finds
The Garden Island featured an article highlighting the projections of increased extreme wet and dry weather seasons in California made by climate scientists Daniel Swain, David Neelin, and Alex Hall…
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California is in store for even more volatile weather, study finds
The Star Tribune featured an article about increased extreme wet and dry weather in California, a finding recently published in co-authors Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin’s new study…
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Study: Climate Change Could Leave Californians With ‘Weather Whiplash’
CBS Sacramento featured an article about the research of climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that projected increased frequency of extreme wet and dry seasons due to…
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Study Predicts Wetter Winters And Climate “Whiplash” In California’s Future
KPVR, Valley Public Radio featured an interview with Daniel Swain, climate scientist, IoES NatureNet Postdoctoral Scholar and lead author of the study.
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‘Weather Whiplash’: Climate Change Will Make California’s Drought-Flood Cycle More Volatile, Study Finds
KTLA quoted Daniel Swain, IoES NatureNet Postdoctoral Fellow/ climate scientist and lead author of the study. “In a place like California, we really need to be thinking about both risks…
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California’s wild extremes of flooding and drought will only get worse as the planet warms
Inhabitant featured an article about the increased frequency of wet-to-dry weather seasons, as projected by climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin in their latest article.
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California risks severe ‘whiplash’ from drought to flood: scientists
KFGO Radio featured research completed by climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that found California will suffer increased volatile weather this century due to a warming world.
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Climate Change Will Make California’s Drought-Flood Cycle More Volatile, Study Finds
“We really need to be thinking seriously about what we’re going to do about these risks,” Daniel Swain, climate scientist and co-author of the study said.”Climate change is creating a…
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In California, climate change will mean increasing ‘weather whiplash’
The Press Democrat reported on the findings and implications of a study co-authored by climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that projected swings from severe drought to extreme…
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California to ‘whipsaw’ between drought, floods: study
Phys.org discussed findings from a paper published in Nature Climate Change by UCLA climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin. The study projected that wet-to-dry extremes in California may…
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California risks severe ‘whiplash’ from drought to flood: scientists
EMTV Online featured research co-authored by climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that projected an increased frequency of extreme wet and dry weather seasons as a result…
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Flooding, Fire, Drought, Repeat: California Has A New Normal
The Pacific Palisades Patch featured an article about research co-authored by IoES scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that projected dramatic swings between dry and wet years as the…
