IoES in the News

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If greenhouse-gas emissions continue on roughly their current trajectory, then Northern California’s temperatures will warm by between 6 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. “That’s approximately the current temperature difference…

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“There are some variations in the atmosphere are really really hard to foresee more than a couple of weeks in advance,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. “But…

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Global warming might have had a hand in California’s recent string of deadly wildfires, UCLA researchers said this week. Climate change is producing “the worst of all possible worlds, and…

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“There’s certainly a sense that climate change is broader in scope than what nuisance law has ever addressed before,” says Sean Hecht, co-executive director of the UCLA law school’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. “But it couldn’t be that if the nuisance gets bigger and bigger that courts are less and less likely to impose a remedy. That flies in the face of reason.”

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“California has experienced its record warmest summer, which comes immediately on the heels of what was quite a wet winter, actually. And counterintuitively, that sequence, that transition from very wet…

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The misleadingly named “National Monument Creation and Protection Act,” which narrowly passed the House Natural Resources Committee last week, is an assault on our public land heritage. H.R. 3990 would…

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Alex Hall appears on KPCC’s Take Two to discuss the role of the Santa Ana winds in Southern California’s wildfire season — and in our culture.

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The Los Angeles Times featured quotes from IoES Faculty Member, Daniel Swain, about the intensity and climate science that made the Northern California fires extremely destructive. 

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UCLA’s Daily Bruin published an informative article detailing IoES’s new Ph.D in Environment and Sustainability that showcased the differences between the Ph.D and the D.Env in Environmental Science and Engineering…

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“‘Increasing frequency and intensity of extreme heat waves is one of the clearest hallmarks of our warming climate, and it’s likely that ‘extreme’ temperatures like those experienced this summer will…

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The City of Malibu Arts Commission helped sponsor the event, which was moderated by Jon Christensen, senior fellow and journalist-in-residence at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies and Center for Digital Humanities.

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The Congo Basin Institute at UCLA has received a grant from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF). This gift will expand conservation and restoration efforts at Bouamir Research Station in Cameroon,…

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Alex Hall, faculty of IoES was featured in UCLA Chancellor Gene Block’s year in review publication. The review showcased Hall’s March 2017 study about the potential reduction of snowpack and…

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Suzanne Paulson, Santa Monica Airport Commissioner and UCLA professor, is asking for permission from the City of Santa Monica to conduct a study on the change in pollution levels before…

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The botanical garden will have an open house on September 26, 2017 to showcase their expanded garden, improved pathways, redesigned stream, new $5 million La Kretz Garden Pavilion, and more. Philip…

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Using 60 years of data, IoES partnered with the Colorado School of Mines to model flow changes and water quality of the river. As part of the Sustainable LA Grand…

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IoEs, HR&A Advisors, Stamen Design, and Stanford Sustainable Urban Systems will be supporting Team Uplift consisting of Gensler, Arup, and Margie Ruddick Landscape– one of ten teams recieving $250,000 from…

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Fellowship applications are now open for advanced PhD and professional students and post-docs to spend a year conducting research related to health (defined broadly) at CBI’s campus in Cameroon through…

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Who is measuring the problem and how is LA trying to cool down the city? Urban heat is disproportionate across the county and many residents do not have air conditioning.…

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Why is resurrecting an extinct species (especially megafauna such as dinosaurs) a recurring theme in pop culture? IoES faculty member Ursula K. Heise’s discusses the environmental culture of, “de-extinction,” in her…

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Record high heat waves, multiple blazes, and microbursts all throughout California- is this what climate change looks like? Learn more about Dr. Daniel Swain's thoughts about whether this is correlated with climate change, as featured in the New York Times. 

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Learn more about Kevin Njabo, an assistant adjunct professor who helped establish the Congo Basin Institute at IoES in this Daily Bruin interview. 

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The results of their study, “Mapping the global potential for marine aquaculture,” published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution on 14 August, demonstrates the oceans’ vast potential to support aquaculture, director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and report co-author Peter Kareiva said. “We need to find more protein for our growing population, and we have pretty much tapped out wild fish as protein sources,” he said. “This study shows that farming fish in the ocean could play a huge role in feeding people without degrading our ocean or overfishing wild species.”

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Stephanie Pincetl, a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, said the ultimate decision on whether the project moves forward will depend on how broadly a judge interprets the developer’s obligations under the California Environmental Quality Act. “Newhall … complied with the letter of the law," she said. “It’ll depend on the judge and if the judge is willing to look at the larger set of impacts and not rule in a very narrow way.”

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Sky-watching weather in parts of Los Angeles is expected to be less than ideal. A cutoff low weather system is working to eclipse the historic eclipse today by bringing low clouds to the coast.