Yale Environment 360
“Ten or twenty years ago most wetlands scientists in most places viewed sediment as a negative,” says Richard Ambrose, a marine ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Too much sediment would come in and bury the marsh. Now people realize sediment is a resource, and we need it to keep up with sea level rise.”
Featured Faculty: Richard Ambrose
The New York Times
Climate researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have created forecasts of how many days of extreme heat — defined as more than 95 degrees — the Los Angeles region could expect if nothing was done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Downtown Los Angeles, for example, now has roughly a week’s worth of extreme heat days a year, said Alex Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at U.C.L.A.
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
If a second federal grant is awarded by end of summer, the group will have received the full $2 million to complete a four-year project that studies how heat events, in part caused by global climate change, affects the most vulnerable local communities identified in a previous UCLA study: the San Fernando Valley, Huntington Park and Sunland and others.
Featured Faculty: Aradhna Tripati
“There’s a lot of power that subnational jurisdictions have over the sort of instruments and sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and if they’re willing to wield that power aggressively and ambitiously, they actually don’t need the federal government in order to do so”, said Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the University of California Los Angeles.
Featured Faculty: Cara Horowitz
High Country News
Invisible barriers have kept people of color at bay.
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen
CNBC
"If U.S. policy shifts in favor of fossil fuels as opposed to renewable ones, in the long run China will gain the upper hand in the inevitable global move toward cleaner sources of energy," said Ann Carlson, professor of environmental law at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Featured Faculty: Ann Carlson
Mongabay
Researchers were able to map the aboveground biomass in the DRC down to the one-hectare level using high-resolution airborne Light Detection and Ranging, or LiDAR, in combination with satellite imagery and machine learning geospatial algorithms, a method developed by Dr. Sassan Saatchi, an expert on tropical forests and the global carbon cycle at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Featured Faculty: Sassan Saatchi
UCLA researchers find antibiotic-resistant genes in air, soil and water samples taken from city parks in San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno, and Bakersfield. The highest level for a gene that’s…
Featured Faculty: Jennifer Jay
Reuters
There were stops at UCLA, where student residences would be renovated and transformed into an Athletes Village, and the Memorial Coliseum which anchored both the 1932 and 1984 Summer Games and would be a centerpiece again should LA beat out Paris, the only other city in the running, for the 2024 Olympics.
Los Angeles Times
LA 2024 has proposed spending $5.3 billion, a relatively modest amount by modern Olympic standards. Athletes would be housed at UCLA, saving $1 billion or more on a new village.
Orange County Register
[T]he star Thursday seemed to be the UCLA campus, which would be home to the Olympic Village and is a potential difference-maker against Paris. LA 2024 will spend $33.6 million in 2024 dollars on Village costs. A yet to be built Paris Olympic Village would cost at least $1 billion.
USA Today
Los Angeles has pitched UCLA as being uniquely capable of accommodating the demands of hosting Olympians, touting existing housing, common areas to socialize and extensive training venues the athletes would have in the village. Even the food, which IOC commission members tried in their visit, adds to the athlete experience.
Phys.org
The map was created using methodology developed by Adjunct Professor Sassan Saatchi, an expert on tropical forests and the global carbon cycle with UCLA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It combines data from satellites and an airplane-based laser detection system known as LiDAR, or light detection and ranging, to map the height and crown of trees at a fine-scale resolution.
Featured Faculty: Sassan Saatchi
Yale Climate Connections
“The amount of accumulated snow in the Eastern Sierra is large enough that it will almost certainly lead to a flood when it melts and drains into the Owens Valley,” UCLA climate researcher Alex Hall wrote in an e-mail interview.
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Malibu Surfside News
Malibuites were treated to an engaging presentation April 23 during Pepperdine: Our National Parks at 100: Confronting Change and Committing to Science, presented by UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science in collaboration with Pepperdine University.
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
The Atlantic
“In most places, when you get a heat wave now, there is probably a human finger print,” says Daniel Swain, an author of the paper and a climate scientist at…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Curbed LA
The results were “a surprise and a disappointment,” Mark Gold, of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, told KPCC. “We thought the grades would have been better than they were ... There has been so much great policy, so many great programs.”
Featured: Mark Gold and Felicia Federico
Daily Bruin
The Daily Bruin takes a look at a student practicum team researching how kelp forests might provide a buffer against harmful impacts of ocean acidification.
Featured Faculty: Robert Eagle
Variety
“…The best environmental stories frame tough challenges in ways that not only spark people’s sense of morality, but also empower them with the belief that they can make a difference.”
Featured Faculty: Peter Kareiva
“Despite tremendous leadership in California and in the region on a wide variety of air quality and greenhouse gas emission reduction issues, we’re seeing in L.A. County that we’re still…
The Washington Post
A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed the influence of global warming on extreme climate events, such as record-breaking temperatures or rainfall,…
“Scientists are servants, and we can never forget that, he said. “We serve the people, we serve this planet, and most of all, we serve the truth,” said UCLA’s Glen…
“Having desal means Southern California gains water independence from Northern California. You can’t waive that off as insignificant. That can be quite important,” said Yoram Cohen, a professor of chemical…
New York Magazine
Climate Lab, a new YouTube series by Vox and the University of California that explores the behavioral science of climate change and attempts to mitigate it, is a smart idea…
Featured Faculty: Jon Christensen and Magali (Maggie) Delmas
Featured: M. Sanjayan