IoES in the News
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KABC-AM: Mislabeling of fish in L.A.’s sushi restaurants
“It really depends on what you order,” said UCLA’s Paul Barber. “With certain things like salmon and tuna, there’s a very high likelihood that when you order that, it is…
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U.S. News & World Report: The short-, long-term effects of China’s smog
Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California Los Angeles, tracks about a dozen UCLA students who study in Beijing for 10 weeks each summer.…
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LA Weekly: “Atmospheric River” of rain heads for California
The front “will take the form a moisture-laden and slow-moving atmospheric river,” according to UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain’s California Weather Blog. There could be as many as two feet…
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Wired: California’s huge storm could cause disastrous melting in the mountains
Flooding and snowmelt are more likely when intense weather systems come in quick succession. “It is clear we will have both of these issues this weekend, with a very warm…
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National Geographic: A toilet snake makes international news
Brad Shaffer, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote in an email that he’s “pretty sure it is an oriental rat snake,”…
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UCLA and other higher education leaders pen open letter on climate action to incoming Administration and Congress
UCLA, along with presidents and chancellors from other colleges and universities, including 35 states in the U.S., have joined together to urge president-elect Trump and the incoming congressional representatives to accelerate…