The Atlantic
“To anyone who’s looked at a lot of EPA rules, this rulemaking is extraordinary in the lack of reference to any legal authority,” Sean Hecht, IoES faculty member and UCLA…
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The Union of Concerned Scientists highlighted a, “groundbreaking paper,” co-authored by Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that indicated, “the state has already entered a period of increased extreme…
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“California should brace for both extreme drought and extreme rainfall to take turns ravaging the Golden State,” ZME Science told its readers in regards to a new report co-authored by…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall and David Neelin
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Nature
Nature included findings from a study led by Daniel Swain, NatureNet Postdoctoral Fellow, that projected, “by 2085, dry-to-wet transition events will increase by 25% in northern California and by up to…
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Cosmos Magazine featured a study co-authored by Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that found California will have frequent precipitation whiplash events due to climate change. The team used past…
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News Deeply
“If you try to adapt for precipitation that is the same as it used to be versus precipitation that is wildly more variable than it used to be – there…
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Mashable
Mashable quoted Daniel Swain, NatureNet Postdoctoral Fellow and climate scientist, who said the result of the study, “is pretty eyebrow-raising, certainly to me, it and may raise some eyebrows in…
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Vox
Daniel Swain, lead author of the study and NatureNet Postdoctoral Fellow told Vox, “essentially [it’s] referring to rapid transitions between extremes of opposing character, so between extreme wet and extreme…
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Reuters
Reuters included a quote from the report published by co-authors Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin: “natural precipitation variability in this region is already large, and projected future whiplash…
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Yahoo News
Yahoo News (U.S. & U.K.) discussed a study co-authored by Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that found California will experience more frequent climate extremes and zigzags from floods…
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The Mercury News
Daniel Swain, NatureNet Postdoctoral Fellow and lead author of the study told Mercury News that, “all of our wet winters and big flood events are due to atmospheric rivers… What…
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Wired
“There’s actually a huge change in the character of precipitation variability.” “It doesn’t mean it will always be raining, but it does mean that eventually all that water has to…
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U.S. News & World Report
“Such a future can be partially, but not completely, avoided” if the world takes tougher action, said Daniel Swain, postdoctoral-scholar/climate scientist and lead author of the study discussed by U.S.…
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San Francisco Chronicle
According to Daniel Swain, IoES climate scientist and lead author of the study to the San Francisco Chronicle, “it’s still a rare event… but it goes from being something at…
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Weather Underground
Daniel Swain (IoES postdoctoral scholar/ climate scientist) told Weather Underground that a 1862-style megaflood, “goes from extraordinarily rare to just very unusual, and that’s a very big problem. We haven’t…
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USA Today
Daniel Swain, IoES postdoctoral scholar/ climate researcher told USA Today that whiplash events, extreme dry to wet conditions from year to year, could occur around 8x per century in a…
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CNN
“In a place like California, we really need to be thinking about both risks [drought and flood] simultaneously,” said Daniel Swain, IoES post-doctoral scholar and lead author of the study…
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San Francisco Chronicle
UCLA IoES faculyt member and UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies co-founder Jon Christenses recently co-authored a San Francisco Chronical opinion piece in support of Prop 68, a $4 billion water…
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Los Angeles Times
“We really need to be thinking seriously about what we’re going to do about these risks,” Daniel Swain, IoES climate scientist told the LA Times about the findings in a…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall and David Neelin
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
“You can see this cycle where species go from being common to being rare because of the food trade, and then rare to extremely rare or extinct because of the…
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KQED
A new study showed with increased frequency of extreme weather events in California, Daniel Swain, the study’s lead author and IoES post-doctoral scholar, told KQED that, “I can definitely attest…
Featured Faculty: David Neelin and Alex Hall
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News Deeply
News Deeply featured one of this year’s Environmental Science B.S. senior practicum projects, Turning the Tides: Santa Monica Bay Ocean Acidification Project, and their work with the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundationresearching how…
Daily Bruin
IoES faculty member and Ursula Heise spoke with the UCLA Daily Bruin about how outbreak narratives could leave younger generations with an unrealistically bleak outlook on life.
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The Sacramento Bee
“We have a history of the auto industry declaring how difficult it is to comply with regulations… Inevitably, it costs less than they say and they’re capable of making changes.…
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