Los Angeles Times
Getting to the beach often comes down to money
“This new research shows that we are at a tipping point where deciding to visit the coast is a close call for most Californians, given the cost,” said Jon Christensen,…
IoES in the News
KPCC
KPCC-FM: L.A. needs to do a better job of catching storm water
“We have got to get to the point that we have a system that is equally as effective at infiltrating all of that storm water, which could be a precious…
Los Angeles Times
L.A. went from high and dry to wet and wild
“We have these very strong west-to-east winds — we call them zonal winds — at the jet stream level in the atmosphere that has sort of propelled this prolonged series…
KCRW-FM: California goes from drought to drenched
“We have swung the pendulum from very dry to now very wet. Highways have been shut down due to mudslides and water on the roadways and avalanches in the higher…
Los Angeles Times
California has the snow. It just needs to keep it frozen
And as much as 10 to 20 feet of snow has fallen at the highest mountain peaks during the most recent storm systems that were much colder than earlier bouts…
Time
Sushi in L.A. is mislabeled nearly half of the time, study says
Some of the mislabeling may be accidental but much of it was likely done intentionally to save money by providing customers with a cheaper type of fish than they thought they were buying, says study author and UCLA Professor Paul Barber. (Also: LAist, The Huffington Post)
KABC Radio
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…
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.…
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…
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…
The Telegraph
Organic wine really does taste better
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,”…
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…
San Francisco Chronicle
Promise of California Coastal Act hard to keep
Scientific American
Trump’s first 100 days: climate and energy
Phys.org
A problem: water and inequality
The Sacramento Bee
State ready to tighten rules on pesticide spraying near schools