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Access Hollywood: Courtney Cox celebrates innovation

Courteney Cox, Nigel Lythgoe, James Marsden and more attended the John Salley hosted Innovators for a Healthy Planet gala. (Coverage starts at 1:51)


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Learning to listen: bridging gaps on a national level

by Anonymous Student We can all picture the scenario: someone expresses a view or opinion that you know to be wrong. But that’s okay! You know the facts are on…

learning to listen: bridging gaps on a national level

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The future of Kentucky depends on Secretary Perry’s support for renewable energy

by Anonymous Student Donald Trump’s Secretary of Energy is a man who famously forgot the Department of lEnergy’s name when he called for the department’s disbandment at a 2012 primary…

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Esquire: It’s the golden age of climate denial

 “…Plants already have CO2, and scientists have developed lots of evidence that rapid accumulation of CO2 in both the atmosphere and ocean will generate a large number of negative effects…


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Christian Science Monitor: Unlikely China ally in pollution fight: public activists

Alex Wang, an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law who specializes in Chinese environmental law, writes in a soon-to-be published study that the overlapping interests of citizens and…


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Phys.org: Climate change puts state’s snowpack in jeopardy in future droughts

“The cryosphere — frozen parts of the planet — has shown the earliest and largest signs of change,” said UCLA climate scientist Alex Hall, who along with study co-author Neil…


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San Francisco Chronicle: California to fight if EPA eases emissions rule

“If the administration loses on this, California’s power is then absolutely clear, and it can use that power to issue standards that are stronger, and it can get other states…


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San Francisco Chronicle: After near-record storms, signs of El Niño rise

“By any formal metric, this winter was unanticipated,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. “The deeper question of why it’s happening is challenging. I don’t think we have…


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Popular Science: How we know there’s climate change, and humans to blame

“Past observations offer a context in which to view today’s climate — one in which Earth’s atmosphere is filled with the largest concentration of carbon dioxide in human history,” says…


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KPCC-FM’s Air Talk: Rollback of fuel economy rules could pit state, EPA

When EPA is asked to grant a waiver for California, it is required by law to follow what the Clean Air Act sets forth are the criteria for deciding that…


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Los Angeles Times: When it rains, billions of gallons of ‘free liquid gold’ lost

“We haven’t made the progress we should have,” said Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability at UCLA. “The money is not there. That’s been the big issue.”


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USA Today: Proposed NOAA budget cuts rattle scientists

Another expert notes that “virtually all we know about Earth’s atmosphere and oceans comes from sustained decades of government-funded scientific research,” according to a tweet from UCLA climate scientist Daniel…


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The Atlantic: The coming clean-air war between Trump, California

“California was the first state — the first, really, governmental entity — to enact tailpipe standards,” says Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California Los…


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KPCC-FM: Winter storms have another upside: cleaner air

“Clear, cold and calm would be probably the three words to describe the conditions most conducive to wintertime air pollution,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA.


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Los Angeles Times: Can California go its own way on federal environmental protections? These lawmakers want to try

“California will undoubtedly test the limits of what it’s possible for a state to do,” said Cara Horowitz, co-director of UCLA’s Environmental Law Clinic. The state, she said, “has made…


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Mercury News: Why it’s raining so much in California

“What we’ve seen describes California’s climate. It’s a climate precipitated by extremes,” said Daniel Swain, an atmospheric researcher at UCLA. “The precipitation is driven by the presence or absence of…


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Smithsonian magazine: Surprising reason the turtle learned to hide its head

“Given that there are only two neck vertebrae, they’re doing an awful lot of reconstructing,” said Brad Shaffer, an evolutionary biologist at UCLA not involved in the new study. However, he…

smithsonian magazine: surprising reason the turtle learned to hide its head

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San Francisco Chronicle: Dams remain in line for bulk of funding

Extremes are what California is likely to see more of, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and author of the California Weather…


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Los Angeles Times: L.A. area braces for what could be season’s biggest storm

“The Friday storm in particular could in fact become the strongest of the season in the Los Angeles region,” said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.


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San Francisco Examiner: Line drawn in sand between beach access, protection

Jon Christensen, an adjunct assistant professor at UCLA’s Institute on the Environment and Sustainability, found the condition of the ocean and beaches is personally important to 90 percent of Californians.…


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KPCC-FM’s “Take Two”: Why Oroville crisis affects Southern California

“What we really need to do as soon as possible is to do a vulnerability assessment of really all our water infrastructure in the state of California,” said UCLA’s Mark…


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Bloomberg: Why America’s tallest dam is suddenly in danger

“Drought usually ends in flood in this part of the world,” said Daniel Swain, a University of California, Los Angeles climate scientist, “because that’s what it takes to end them.”


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Los Angeles Times: Oroville Dam dangers remain as new storm approaches

“The Friday storm in particular could in fact become the strongest of the season in the Los Angeles region,” said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. 


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Christian Science Monitor: An Oroville message: As climate shifts, so will water strategies

Precipitation in the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range is 220 percent above normal this winter, making it the wettest on record. But snowpack is just 145 percent above normal, falling…