Scientific American
IoES in the News
The Desert Sun
How many birds are killed by solar farms?
Los Angeles Times
Eco-friendly wines aren’t just better for the planet — they taste better too, experts say
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
Featured: Olivier Gergaud and Jinghui Lim
ScienceDaily
Do eco-friendly wines taste better?
Raise a glass to organic grapes: Study finds eco-certified wine rated higher by wine publications
Featured Faculty: Magali (Maggie) Delmas
Featured: Olivier Gergaud and Jinghui Lim
Predicting Heat Waves
“If you are looking at the observations, we found that there was this clear distinct pattern in the Pacific,” Karen McKinnon, with the Center for Atmospheric Research, said. The Pacific Ocean, it turned out, offered clues of what was to come 50 days before heat waves arrived.
Featured Faculty: Karen Aline McKinnon
Los Angeles Times
To avoid conflict, L.A. mountain lions choose separate hunting grounds
LAist
laist.com: The Mountain Lions Are Hunting Among Us
Female mountain lions, on average, hunt less than a mile from human development.
Curbed LA
LA Area Mountain Lions Are Surprisingly Urban
A new study shows the predatory cats like to hunt very close to developed areas
News Deeply
Water Deeply: What Lake Mead’s Record Low Means for California
For Glen MacDonald, the John Muir memorial chair in geography and former director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, the May…
PBS SoCal
7 Things You Should Know About L.A. Heat Waves and Climate Change
Using global climate models, climate scientists at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) have projected that temperatures will increase by 3-5°F in Southern California in the next 30…
Los Angeles Times
L.A. will keep getting hotter, scientists say — a lot hotter
By the year 2050, there could be 22 days of extreme heat in Los Angeles, and by 2100, there could be 54 such days, a study released by UCLA scientists…
New Scientist
Life on the edge: Saving the world’s hotbeds of evolution
It’s a radical new approach to saving nature: don’t obsess about individual species, safeguard the places on the bleeding edge of evolutionary change instead
The Sacramento Bee
A smarter way to pay for parks
Jimmy Kimmel Live
UCLA scientists assure us: Climate change is real
Phys.org
L.A.’s buildings loom large in determining street-level air quality
Featured Faculty: Suzanne Paulson
KPCC
Little rain, but El Niño brings deluge of data for local scientists
UCLA environmental science student Denita Toneva is mentioned during a field research day to mark the area of tide pool she and her teammates plan to investigate.