IoES in the News
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Daniel Swain in NRDC—California’s Climate Whiplash
“It’s convenient to have this natural time-released water storage in the form of snowpack, and we’ve designed a lot of our Western water systems to accommodate that,” says climate scientist Dr.…
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Daniel Swain in Nature News—Catastrophic Flash Droughts Brought by Climate Change Are Catching Farmers Off Guard
According to a new study, climate change is speeding up and intensifying droughts, particularly the fast-developing heat-driven type that catches farmers off guard. It’s the increasing thirstiness of the atmosphere,…
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Daniel Swain in CNN—Thousands of acres are underwater in California, and the flood could triple in size this summer
“The ground is literally sunk in some places by 10 or 15 feet over the past decade,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los…
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Daniel Swain in Spectrum News 1—As Earth warms, more ‘flash droughts’ suck soil, plants dry
What happens is the air gets so hot and so dry that it sucks water right out of plants and soil. “It’s the increasing thirstiness of the atmosphere,” said UCLA…
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Thomas Gillespie in Daily Bruin—UCLA-led study discusses drought impacts on urban vegetation in coastal greater LA
The study serves as evidence for the public to help understand how climate warming has been inordinately affecting LA’s communities of color and what changes may be necessary to alleviate…
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Glen MacDonald in The Island Online—America-Sri Lanka photo exhibition
The Exhibition under the theme of ‘Sri Lanka in Focus’ is designed to promote tourism in Sri Lanka. As such, it will depict the scenic beauty of the country as…
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Alex Hall in UCLA Newsroom—How does your garden grow?
Professor Alex Hall’s work with native plants is in full bloom, with a weekend tour and podcast
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Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett for Startup Basecamp — The Climate Tech Startups to Watch This Month: April Week 1
Startup Basecamp climate tech startup series highlights Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett’s startup LINUS as an incredible startups that is “leading the fight against the climate crisis.”
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Daniel Swain in Porterville Recorder—Runoff forecast: Success Lake could receive total of 570,000 acre feet
While state officials stopped short of predicting specific flooding locations, the San Joaquin Valley remains a concern with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain telling the Los Angeles Times some parts…
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Daniel Swain in US Times Post—California endured the fifth-coldest March since 1895, data show
Daniel Swain, climate scientist at UCLA, was posted on Twitter on Monday that “some regions of Northern California have just experienced their coldest March on record.”
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Daniel Swain in the Washington Post—Historic California snow starts to melt, but is ‘just a taste’ of what may come
The San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Basin are the areas of highest concern for flooding “In the southern Sierra right now, the snowpack upstream of certain reservoirs is enough to…
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Daniel Swain in Mendocino Beacon—The California chill: State recorded fifth-coldest March in 129 years amid storms, snow
Last year’s March was the 11th warmest in the 129 years of record keeping. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, posted Monday on Twitter that “a few regions of Northern California just experienced their…
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James McWilliams in nature.com—Wind-current feedback is an energy sink for oceanic internal waves
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Marilyn Raphael, director of the IoES and UCLA geography professor to discuss Antarctic sea ice and climate change at Penn State
Marilyn Raphael will speak as part of the E. Willard Miller Endowed Lecture on April 14
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Kevin Njabo in openDemocracy Podcast—Borders & Belonging: does brain drain hurt the Global South?
First, we’ll hear from someone who is himself part of the brain drain, Kevin Njabo. He’s the Africa director and associate adjunct at the Center for Tropical Research, University of California,…
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Daniel Swain in Newser—California Snowpack Is Huge, and ‘Big Melt’ Poses Risks
Calling it the “big melt,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain pointed out that “all of that water is going to have to come downhill sooner rather than later.”
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Beate Ritz in The Hill—Lithium-contaminated water in pregnancy could be linked to increased risk of autism
Consuming lithium-contaminated tap water during pregnancy could be associated with an increased risk of newborn autism development, according to a new study from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Glen MacDonald in the Guardian—Communities of color take the ‘biggest hit’ in Los Angeles’ unequal spread of greenery
The city will see continued heatwaves, but a new study says heat-damping urban vegetation is unevenly distributed
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Narayan Gopinathan in UCLA Daily Bruin—UCLA plans to add more EV charging stations, support sustainable transportation
UCLA Transportation is planning to expand sustainable transportation and electric vehicle charging facilities on campus in an effort to reduce UCLA’s contributions to transportation emissions. Narayan Gopinathan, an environment and…
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Daniel Swain in Davis Enterprise—UCLA ’scientist-communicator’ returns to UCD for a climate seminar
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Daniel Swain in KQED—This Winter’s Floods May Be ‘Only a Taste’ of the Megafloods to Come, Climate Scientists Warn
“As disruptive as this year’s events have been, we’re nowhere near to a plausible worst-case storm and flood scenario for California,” said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in Yahoo Finance—New Speakers Announced for the 2023 Global Inclusive Growth Summit
Step into a world of innovation at the 2023 Global Inclusive Growth Summit, presented by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and The Aspen Institute on Thursday, April 13, 2023.
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Beate Ritz in Cardiovascular Business—Longevity, cardiovascular durability improve with just 1 or 2 walks per week
Weekend warriors who take brisk walks of around four miles just once or twice per week enjoy lower cardiovascular and all-cause mortality than their sedentary peers.
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Susanna Hecht honored by American Association of Geographers
Susanna Hecht, director of the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies, received the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography from the American Association of Geographers in Denver on March 24.…
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Thomas Gillespie in Mirage News—Drought-induced vegetation browning disproportionately affects LA’s disadvantaged communities
In previous studies, the loss of urban greenness has been shown to increase the incidence of mental illness and affect cognitive function in schoolchildren. Extreme heat exacerbated by that loss…