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NBC News: California prepares to fight efforts to ease car emission rules
Trump is aggressively proclaiming that we should not be addressing climate change at the federal level,” said UCLA’s Sean B. Hecht. “And the auto companies have taken this as an…
Zooming in on how climate change affects severe weather
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.
Experts come up with surprising solutions to climate change in new UC/Vox video series
First episode of 'Climate Lab' airing today asks why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change.
Why I march for science
Stephanie Pincetl is one of the official speakers at Saturday's March for Science. Here's why she's marching.
IoES welcomes 3 new environmental scientists to UCLA
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.
Understanding complex international questions about geoengineering
UCLA Law School's Ted Parson weighs in on climate geoengineering—and some of its sticky governance problems he'll be tackling in a new project.