IoES in the News
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Federal report sees human-caused changes to California’s climate
Since the 1980’s, human activity has caused higher temperatures and extreme swings between floods and droughts in California’s climate.
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Climate gloom and doom? Bring it on. But we need stories about taking action, too
In order to take action, people not only need to hear the bad news, they need to hear the good news too.
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Your Pet’s Food Is Not Helping the Environment
Meat production has a significant impact on the Earth's environment — and new research shows that your pets are part of the problem.
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Here’s what your pets are really doing to the environment
Armed with a survey estimating that Americans owned 77.8 million pet dogs and 85.6 million pet cats in 2015, Gregory Okin started investigating pets' food needs.
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Study gives pet lovers paws
A shocking new study unleashed by UCLA is blaming family pets for causing some global warming.
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U.S. pets are responsible for 30% of the environmental impact of meat eating
If America’s dogs and cats were their own country, their meat consumption would rank fifth in the world.
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UCLA professor says dogs and cats contribute significantly to climate change
In a study released Wednesday, a geography professor at UCLA calculated that the meat-based food Americans’ dogs and cats eat – and the waste those pets produce – generate the equivalent of about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.
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LA’s new cleantech chief and a champion for tomorrow’s talent
Vien Truong, Pritzker candidate, featured in GreenBiz.
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It’s Never Been Harder to Be a Climate Scientist
Lauren Kurtz, Pritzker candidate, featured in the New Republic.
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Dream Corps and NAACP Get New Leaders
Vien Truong, director of the Dream Corps’s Green for All climate-justice program and Pritzker Award candidate, has been named chief executive officer.
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Warmer than normal July for the Bay Area
Elsewhere in California, summer has been searing, according to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, whose California Weather Blog provides perspectives on the state’s weather, climate, and regional environmental change.
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Cooking in the American south
Pritzker Award candidate, Micheal Twitty, writes a book about his journey through African-American culinary history in the south.
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Meet the Pritzker candidates: 16-20
by Rebecca Ash Next month, we’ll announce the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award finalists. Until then, meet the final group of candidates for the award, which is dedicated to someone under…
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BBC News – Greenland ice sheet
UCLA IoES professor Aradhana Tripati interviewed on BBC News about melting glaciers.
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Meet the Pritzker candidates: 11-15
by Rebecca Ash Two weeks after the announcement of the inaugural Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, our 20 candidates continue to be narrowed down to five finalists. All under the age of 40,…
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Michael Twitty’s ‘The Cooking Gene’ Explores Intersection of Culture and Cuisine
(Pritzker candidate feature) Michael Twitty, writer, Judaic studies teacher, culinary historian and historical interpreter is a new kind of voice on the food scene. Twitty meshes cooking, food and history…
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Monsoons in Southern California? Here’s why it’s so cloudy
"I think a lot of people are always intrigued to find out there is, in fact, a monsoon in the desert Southwest,"said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and author of the California weather blog Weather West.
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Novel legal strategy underpins sea level rise lawsuits against oil and coal
“We’re in uncharted territory here pretty fundamentally,” said Sean Hecht, co-executive director of the UCLA law school’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. “The theory behind it is an interesting one: that essentially, petroleum products should be considered defective when used as directed because of the harms that they cause.”
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Meet the Pritzker candidates: 6-10
by Rebecca Ash Deliberations continue to reduce 20 candidates to five finalists for the inaugural Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award. With $100,000 at stake, meet the next group of contestants.…
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‘Most important vote’ set today for cap and trade
“I consider A.B. 398 to be a pretty good compromise and one that doesn’t threaten the environmental integrity of the climate program in any serious way,” said Cara Horowitz, co-director…
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Downtown Yonkers: A Cleaner, Greener Place to Call Home
Pritzker nominee featured in the New York Times.
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Imperial Beach, two counties sue fossil fuel companies for money to deal with sea level rise
A number of earlier lawsuits against oil and gas companies failed because they focused on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, said Ann Carlson, faculty director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law. “Here, this is a more conventional lawsuit” in the sense of asking for damages, she said. “The lawyers have done a very good job. The courts will have to take this seriously.”
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Meet the Pritzker candidates: 1-5
by Rebecca Ash Last week UCLA announced the 20 inaugural candidates for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award. The award is the first to target environmental leaders under the age…
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Hawaii accelerator CEO makes short list for national environmental award
Elemental Excelerator co-founder and CEO Dawn Lippert has made the short list for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award. Lippert, who heads the Honolulu-based accelerator, is one of 20 nominees for the…
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Tasting the Impossible Burger
UCLA professors Amy Rowat and Jenny Jay break down the science of how the vegan burger that mimics real meat is made.