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UCLA professor wins British Society for Literature and Science’s annual book prize
IoES and Department of English Professor Ursula Heise has been awarded this year’s British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) prize for best book in the field of literature and science published…
UCLA announces new Ph.D. program in environment and sustainability
Starting this fall, the IoES will offer a new graduate program to help students study and address important environmental challenges that require skills in multiple disciplines. Environment and sustainability problems…
Salon: Removal of energy ‘burdens’ could have huge impacts
“If you ask in the most expansive way what federal actions affect fossil fuels production, DOE’s energy support — research and development support for renewable energy — could be construed…
Losing childhood places in an age of regulatory rollback
by Kyla Wilson I was raised on the sandstone hills above San Elijo Lagoon, just a couple miles south of Batiquitos Lagoon. As a child, these inlets where river runoff…
Green building programs show big results for big buildings
UCLA study shows building certification programs like LEED reduce carbon emissions, but smaller buildings get left behind.
Students re-establish vital foothold for research deep in African rainforest
UCLA's Congo Basin Institute led a team of UCLA and Cameroonian students into a rain forest in central Africa to reopen a field station in a jungle with a thriving ecosystem with birds, elephants and monkeys.
Nature springs to life after wet winter
From the Santa Monica Mountains to the Sierra Nevada, UCLA conservation biologists watch as wildlife responds to a welcome surge of wet weather after years of intense drought.
Learning to listen: bridging gaps on a national level
by Anonymous Student We can all picture the scenario: someone expresses a view or opinion that you know to be wrong. But that’s okay! You know the facts are on…
Why we must understand the facts of climate change
by Anonymous Student America is meant to be great again. In our nation, there is a need to care for our brothers and sisters, family and friends, to the authorities…
