IoES in the News
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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…
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Glen MacDonald in Mirage News—Drought-induced vegetation browning disproportionately affects LA’s disadvantaged communities
The findings showed that during drought, more affluent places such as Pasadena, Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles remained greener than lower-income areas such as East Los Angeles, Inglewood and…
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Daniel Swain in LA Times—Prepare for the latest blow: Rain, snow and high winds hit California
“Yet more rain, yet more heavy mountain snow, more travel disruptions,” Daniel Swain, UCLA climate scientist said Monday. He called it “another moderate to strong storm,” though not comparable to last week’s…
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Daniel Swain in LA Times–When everyone sounds like a weather forecaster, whom should you trust?
This winter, as atmospheric rivers slam into California one after another, Daniel Swain isn’t just worried about rain and flooding. The UCLA climate scientist, who has devoted his life to studying weather,…
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Alex Hall in NY Times–What Does All This Rain Mean for California’s Drought?
And, as Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, pointed out to me, disputes over the dwindling Colorado River still…
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Daniel Swain in WFLA News Channel 8—California’s all-time snowpack record within reach
“There is more snow water equivalent in the Southern Sierra than at any point since at least the 1950s … and likely longer than that,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist…
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Gregory Pierce in NewScientist—Around 2 billion people don’t have access to clean drinking water
An international pledge to ensure that all the world’s population has access to safe drinking water by 2030 is woefully off track, according to a major UN report
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Edward Parsons on KCRW PressPlay—World must halve CO2 emissions in 7 years to avoid catastrophe
The planet is approaching catastrophic levels of global warming and irreversible damage within the next decade, according to the most definitive report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on…
Awards
Elijah Catalan selected for 2023 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award
Elijah Catalan has been selected for a 2023 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA), which is sponsored by the Ecological Society of America. Along with 15 other graduate…
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Daniel Swain in The Hill—Much of California has escaped drought, but what lies ahead?
“This has been really disruptive in these communities and will have significant impacts on agriculture coming out of the Salinas Valley probably for a while,” Swain said during virtual office hours on Friday.
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Angela Johnson Meszaros at UCLA discusses Quemetco’s Lead Legacy: A Cycle of Injustice and Contamination in Southern California
A new report details how Quemetco — the last remaining secondary lead smelter in California — has exploited a failed regulatory structure that does little to protect people and the environment.…
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Susanna Hecht in UCLA Daily Bruin—Recent rain reveals success of ‘green alleys’ program, according to UCLA faculty
Susanna Hecht, professor of urban planning, said the type of vegetation used in green alleyways is also important to consider. Urban planning professionals should consider incorporating plants that have lower…
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Alex Hall in NY Times—A Very Wet Winter Has Eased California’s Drought, but Water Woes Remain
“It’s sort of like if you are deep in debt,” said Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at U.C.L.A. Suddenly encountering a lot of cash “might…
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Daniel Blumstein in India Education Diary—Researchers Say Emerging Field Of Evolutionary Medicine Could Address Range Of Health Conditions
“It’s not about treating diabetes when a person gets it at 40, but about making the investment during childhood,” said Daniel Blumstein, a UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology…
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Q&A: Monica L. Smith on how humans have adapted to natural forces throughout history
‘The Power of Nature’ explores how people have responded to disasters
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The La Kretz Center’s 2022 Annual Report
Check out the innovative conservation research projects, stimulating public outreach events, and exciting funding programs that the center has supported over the past year!
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Park Williams in KSL.com—Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming
The big picture on water comes from data from a pair of satellites known as GRACE, or Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, that were used to measure changes in Earth’s…
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Daniel Swain in Cal Matters: Atmospheric rivers continue
According to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, as of this weekend, the Southern Sierra appears to have its largest snowpack in recorded…
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Daniel Swain in NBC News: California under flood threat releases millions of gallons from reservoir
“The primary management objective of flood operations is to reduce the risk of downstream flooding rather than conserve for the dry season to come,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist…
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Marilyn Raphael: Directions Mag—Geographers Examine Climate Resilience, Social and Racial Justice, Energy Transition, and more at Annual Conference March 23-27
5,600 geographers and geospatial practitioners from the public and private sectors and academia, including climate scientist Marilyn Raphael, AAG president and director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; political…
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Daniel Swain in Washington Post: ‘High risk’ of dangerous flooding as major storm bears down on California
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain called the latest storm a “classic ‘pineapple express-type’ atmospheric river event” with moisture originating near Hawaii.
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Farwiza Farhan: Asia Foundation Podcast—The Women Defending Indonesia’s Forests
Now, a band of forest defenders, organized and led by women, is demonstrating that social forestry can stop this kind of destructive exploitation by engaging the communities whose lives are entwined with…
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Daniel Swain: AOL News and The Hill—Yet another atmospheric river to flood California later this week
“It now appears increasingly likely that a potentially significant and very likely warm atmosphere river will probably affect some portion of Northern or Central California,” University of California, Los Angeles…