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David Colgan

This ignorance can result in insufficient responses to real threats like climate change

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David Colgan

This Thursday, January 25, UCLA Law School’s Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment continues that exploration, hosting a free, public discussion at Fowler Museum on holding fossil fuel companies accountable in California. Closing remarks will be delivered by Ken Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Holly Buck

The whole hillside, dotted with red California fuchsia, was clearly ready to burn. Anyone could walk up one of the many roads and trails in these parched hills and strike…

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David Colgan

Pritzker Award winner Dan Hammer’s satellite images reveal the scale of 2017’s massive fires

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Alison Hewitt

Record-breaking weather consistent with climate change is fanning the flames

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David Colgan

UC Berkeley scholar honored for making satellite images more accessible to journalists

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Amani Itani

Study of tree rings shows Western U.S. precipitation extremes are closely aligned with the region’s past

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Rebecca Ash

UCLA climate research shows another way rising temperatures could affect California’s water resources

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Amani Itani

The events, collectively titled A Climate Series for the Ages, seek to open a dialogue between the Los Angeles community and professors, authors, researchers and experts focused on the topic.…

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Jennie Dean

I joined naturalists to observe wildlife in the Arctic Circle—and learned a surprising fact about Santa’s reindeer

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Amani Itani

According to UCLA Law School’s Ted Parson, those measures probably need to include climate engineering—large-scale manipulations of environmental processes to counteract global warming. That’s what he argued in an article…

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Daniel Swain

The decade-plus since the first movie has seen record-breaking climate changes and extremes

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Samantha Attwood

The second installment in a three-part companion series to An Inconvenient Sequel. How much does voting matter? Our experts estimate the carbon output of Trump versus Clinton.

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Alison Hewitt

I can’t has cheezburger: UCLA researcher finds that feeding pets creates the equivalent of 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year

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David Colgan

Fueled by her experiences, Aradhna Tripati has helped create the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, which will provide opportunities for underrepresented minorities.

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David Colgan

Using satellite and laser detection, a new carbon density map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo empowers global efforts to stem climate change and deforestation.

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David Colgan

The program playfully approaches the critical global issue in episodes that are just seven to 10 minutes long. The first two on thinking about climate change and going green have…

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Belinda Waymouth

UCLA weather expert Daniel Swain is part of a team that created a new four-step “framework” to more accurately test how climate change is pushing unprecedented weather events. It’s the latest study in a burgeoning field of climate science known as “extreme event attribution.” Testing their new framework, researchers found that human induced warming has increased the odds of severely hot weather across more than 80 percent of the globe.

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Alison Hewitt

First episode of ‘Climate Lab’ airing today asks why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change.

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Stephanie Pincetl

Stephanie Pincetl is one of the official speakers at Saturday’s March for Science. Here’s why she’s marching.

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Peter Kareiva

With specialties ranging from environmental economics to atmospheric science, three new hires add legitimate climate change muscle to UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.