IoES in the News
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National Public Radio’s On Point: IoES’s Jon Christensen joins NPR discussion on Latino voters
This year, 27 million Latinos in California will be eligible to vote—a 17 percent increase from 2012. On National Public Radio’s On Point, UCLA professor Jon Christensen joined a panel…
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UCLA Newsroom: Steps toward a sustainable golden age for Los Angeles proposed in new UCLA plan
Developing the plan involved more than two dozen faculty members from different disciplines across campus
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Connecting Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: What’s the Evidence?
Q&A with Postdoctoral Fellow Samantha Cheng
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UCLA Newsroom: Why Are Some Wild Animals More Tolerant to Human Interaction Than Others?
Meta-analysis Led by UCLA Biologist Could Have Implications for Conservation Strategies
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Out of the Blue and Into Your Eardrums
UCLA Professor Paul Barber’s ocean conservation efforts get remixed for a new art and science exhibit
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New Research: Songbirds’ Silent Killer
West Nile Virus Has Reduced Survival Rates By 50% for Some Backyard Favorites
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‘Bending the Curve’: Can We Flat-Line Global Warming by 2050?
A New Report from 50 University of California System Researchers Shows How
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ESE: Getting the Job Done
An IoES Graduate Program Puts Women & Minorities on the Front Lines of Environmental Problem Solving
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Team Turtle Beats the Drought
How the UCLA La Kretz Center Rehabbed & Released 28 Genetically Significant Turtles Imperiled by Habitat Loss
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UCLA’s Free Energy Atlas Uncovers L.A. Buildings’ Role in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Combining Never-Before–Available Data from Energy Utilities with Public Data, the Database Provides an Unprecedented Look at Energy Use
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Alex Hall: How Climate Change is Fueling Southern California Wildfires
Read why climate models suggest a new kind of wildfire threat will emerge to the region’s residents.
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Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Drought?
A UCLA-Zócalo panel agrees technology is there to quench state's thirst
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LADWP lags in improving underground infrastructure after UCLA flood
By Ian Stevenson Originally posted in the Daily Bruin The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said it has not improved its infrastructure because it is still researching new…
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IoES Researchers Fight a Salamander Apocalypse
North America’s salamanders could soon face an apocalypse — from a deadly pathogen making its way here through the pet trade. But who’s leading the charge to protect them through…
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UCLA faculty voice: Los Angeles water rate increase plan just isn’t big enough
Mark Gold writes that to meet the mayor’s goal of halving imported water by 2025, we must all pay more
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Peter Kareiva takes helm at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Peter Kareiva, a leading environmental scientist and vocal advocate for using multiple disciplines to inform conservation, is the new director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
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A conservation scientist at home in a megacity
Editor’s Note: As chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy, the world’s largest environmental organization, Peter Kareiva has spent most of the past decade in the air, touching down to work…
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California water agencies don’t know how much their pipes leak, UCLA report finds
Researchers recommend that state officials adopt best practices for monitoring leaks and measuring water loss
