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One of California’s iconic tree species offers lessons for conservation
David Colgan
The valley oak is poorly adapted to rising temperatures, UCLA-led study finds
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Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044
Katharine Davis Reich
UCLA study narrows the predicted timeframe for one worrying result of climate change
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Activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim wins Pritzker Award for young environmental innovators
David Colgan
Native of Chad receives $100,000 for work uniting cultures around a shrinking water resource that serves four African nations
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Q&A with Miranda Wang, 2018 Pritzker Genius Award winner
David Colgan
Since winning the 2018 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award last November, the 25-year-old chemist and the company she co-founded, BioCellection, have been refining a new system that breaks down previously unrecyclable plastic and turns it into useful materials. Their effort coincides with an escalating plastic waste crisis that has governments, nonprofits and businesses scrambling for…
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On water sustainability, L.A. County earns C+ from UCLA environmental report card
Lauren Miura
But researchers point to expected funding for stormwater capture and cleanup projects as positive step