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Marilyn Raphael takes helm at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

David Colgan

Professor who helped found the institute in the 1990s now in top leadership role

Tiny endangered shrimp may get big hand from environmental DNA testing

David Colgan

Emerging research method saves conservationists time and money and aids in preservation

A warming California sets the stage for future floods

Sonia Aronson

UCLA study finds that continued climate change will deliver a dangerous one-two punch for state’s water managers

Announcing the Candidates for the 2020 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award

Sonia Aronson

Candidates for the 4th annual Pritzker Award are artists, leaders and inventors under the age of 40 fighting for a more sustainable future. They include a college dropout who invented a solar-charging robot, the daughter of two first responders who created a real-time disaster response platform to replace antiquated technology, and an East African leader…

Air conditioning: Environmental loss, human win

Paul Stainier

With a warming climate, a key win-lose solution is air conditioning. In hotter conditions, workplace productivity suffers, students learn less, and mortality rates are higher. Fortunately, we have a way to avoid the worst of these effects: AC prevents around 3,000 premature deaths a year in the US. Win. But energy-intensive American AC usage also…

Discovery opens up new path in study of marine evolution and biodiversity

Kaitlyn DeShon

Two UCLA studies of ocean mollusks shed light on how new species develop