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Claire Griffiths
Pacific Palisades fire sparks emergency: UCLA experts warn of extreme wildfire risks. How Santa Ana winds are making this fire worse, what you need to know about fire safety and more.
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Claire Griffiths
UCLA, already ranked the No. 1 public university in the country for the eighth consecutive year by the U.S. News & World Report, has now been recognized as the No. 10 university in Niche.com’s annual “Best Colleges for Environmental Science” rankings
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Maya Parra
UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture students took part in a hands-on charette to enhance Sage Hill, UCLA’s outdoor learning space. Their proposals aimed to improve accessibility while conserving native plants and wildlife, providing students with valuable real-world design experience.
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Claire Griffiths
On Sunday, June 16, the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability celebrated its commencement ceremony, honoring the Class of 2024.
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Alison Hewitt
That’s why UCLA teamed up with more than a dozen partners this year to create the Sustainable Move Out, with groups like the UCLA Thrift Shop accepting furniture, the Bruin Bazaar creating…
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Claire Griffiths
But due to their nocturnal activity and well-hidden nests, little data has been available on local owl populations. To address this knowledge gap, a team of UCLA seniors collaborated with…
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Emma Horio
It’s the year 2050, and the Los Angeles River runs lazily along, sparkling in the sunlight, as the hum of freeway traffic weaves through the idyllic setting.
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Madeline Adamo
The UCLA graduate student is helping ensure that Native ecology drives the region’s land management for centuries to come.
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Anna Novoselov
The harm excessive light causes animals and humans, plus mitigation solutions, are detailed in a new report
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Alison Hewitt
An atmospheric river is bringing two big storms and potential flooding toward California — along with several live Q&As with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.
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John Harlow
It’s 6 a.m. — first light at the White Mountain Research Center, UCLA’s high-altitude research laboratories some 300 miles north of Los Angeles. The skies are brutally scarlet, the views…
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Alison Hewitt
But that’s not the whole story. The traffic corridors that run through disadvantaged areas to spread those clean-air benefits remain a source of heavy pollution from gas-powered vehicles. The study…
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Claire Griffiths
As ambush predators, mountain lions thrive under the cover of darkness. But what happens in Southern California, where artificial light makes every night twice as bright as if there were a full moon?
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David Colgan
Research by UCLA and La Brea Tar Pits scientists upends theory that saber-toothed cats, other large mammals were hunted out of existence
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Claire Griffiths
All are invited to participate in new program from UCLA and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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David Colgan
Project by Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies at UCLA informs underserved communities on public works
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Anna Novoselov
UCLA’s official nature classroom had a busy first year
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David Colgan
UCLA-led study reveals a ‘geography of inequality’ across region’s coastal areas
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David Colgan
Who gets to make those decisions (and how) is the focus of ethnographer Alesia Montgomery, a new faculty member at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Racialized, low-income communities…
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David Colgan
With climate change making heat waves longer and more severe, Los Angeles County has for several years provided cooling centers — many of which are in libraries, parks or other…
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David Colgan
Levels and sources of contamination vary by location, UCLA-led study finds
