ThinkProgress
“We do anticipate changes in precipitation, but even if we didn’t have any changes in precipitation, there would still be a big impact on snowpack due to warming,” Alex Hall, director…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
NPR
NPR’s All Things Considered discussed a study co-authored by IoES Environmental Economics Professor Alan Barreca that found cases of influenza deaths among those age 65+ increase by 18% when their team…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
Daily Bruin
The Daily Bruin covered the IoES’s Center for Diverse Science in Leadership’s inaugural event where scientists from diverse backgrounds spoke about their research and experiences in academia.
Featured Faculty: Aradhna Tripati
Featured: Ingrid Maradiaga and Mellisha Stokes
San Francisco Chronicle
“In the last 10 or 15 years, the snowline had been marching up the mountains pretty quickly… Unfortunately, that’s the reality. It’s one of the most obvious impacts of global…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Daily Bruin
The Daily Bruin featured a story on the Bird Genoscape Project study that showed how climate change may be leading to a decline in the North American yellow warbler population.
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith
The Verge
The Verge featured IoES Director Peter Kareiva and researcher Valerie Carranza’s study- “Existential risk due to ecosystem collapse: Nature strikes back,” highlighting major environmental concepts that are pertinent to apocalyptic events…
Featured Faculty: Peter Kareiva
YubaNet
Yubanet.com referenced Alex Hall and Neil Berg’s research on the projected temperature increase of the Sierra Nevada in their article.
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Featured: Neil Berg
The New York Times
UCLA biologist Daniel T. Blumstein and his colleague found that social marmots tended to die younger; as featured in the NY Times.
Will the investment in eco-certification for your vineyard pay off? “Environmentally conscious millennials may select green wines at modest prices, yet high end consumers still perceive organic wines as lower…
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
Daily Bruin
William Zou, IoES student and staff member featured Mark Gold, IoES’s associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability in his Daily Bruin column. “As an MWD director, I was pretty…
Featured: Mark Gold
TED
Learn about how Kevin Njabo’s journey as a conservation biologist led him to work as a director of the Congo Basin Institute, a UCLA project in Cameroon that works with…
Featured: Kevin Njabo
International Business Times highlighted the Center for Tropical Science’s recent study in the genetic mapping of birds in relation to climate change.
AAAS
“These efforts might help identify regions where multiple species are vulnerable, hinting at hotspots that might be particularly beneficial for conservation.” The American Association for the Advancement of Science featured…
Featured Faculty: Thomas Smith and Ryan Harrigan
PBS
“A migratory bird can predict its own future, and this crystal ball-like indicator can be found in its genes.” PBS Newshour publicized the findings in the Center for Tropical Research’s…
Featured Faculty: Ryan Harrigan and Thomas Smith
Los Angeles Times
“We’re learning that the pollution you breathe comes down to where you are, when you’re there and what the traffic is like,” said Suzanne Paulson, IoES faculty member, to the…
Featured Faculty: Suzanne Paulson
Reuters
Juliana v. United States involves 21 teenagers charging the government for its inadequate climate policy. “It would be extraordinary for a judge to take the step of holding the U.S. government…
Featured: Sean Hecht
NPR
“Are there engineering solutions? To a certain degree, there are, certainly, in terms of the building materials that you use, the defensible space around houses both in suburbs and in…
KPCC
89.3 KPCC interviewed IoES’s Daniel Swain and Daniel Walton- climate scientsts who observed that 2017 was the year of extremes, consistent with the direction that climate scientists say we are…
Featured: Daniel Swain and Daniel Walton
UCLA Newsroom
“We hope to track global trends in the abundance of giant kelp forests and identify regions that have experienced significant declines in kelp,” according to Kyle Cavanaugh— geography professor and IoES…
Featured Faculty: Kyle Cavanaugh
Los Angeles Times
The LA Times consulted with climate scientist Daniel Swain regarding the cause of massive wildfires from dry autumns, a symptom of climate change.
Featured: Daniel Swain
The Atlantic
The Atlantic consulted with Daniel Swain, climate scientist, about a ridge formation that may keep the east coast cool while the west coast burns.
Featured: Daniel Swain
Los Angeles Times
“I see the economic incentives for doing this… But it’s kind of stupid, because we all know we will pay for it with long-term health effects,” Beate Ritz, UCLA environmental epidemiologist,…
Featured Faculty: Beate Ritz
WBUR
Boston’s NPR News Station WBUR 90.9 featured IoES Center for Climate Science director, Alex Hall as a guest where he said the conditions causing wildfires in California tracks with global…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Los Angeles Times
Did climate change diminish or strengthen the Santa Ana winds of Southern California? “I would say there’s not high confidence in any of these results because they do conflict . .…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall