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UC/Vox video series on climate change is heating up
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…
Pritzker Fellow Kevin Njabo knows how to make the impossible happen
Kevin Njabo, director of Africa Programs for both the Center for Tropical Research (CTR) and Congo Basin Institute, has been awarded the 2017 IoES Pritzker Environment and Sustainability Education Fellowship. The annual fellowship is made possible through an endowment from the Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation and recognizes instructors for their contributions to academic programs.
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.