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Open for business in the Congo rainforest
Recently, crew of college students from UCLA and Cameroon left convenience behind and plunged into the rainforest. Their objective: reopen a field station that had been shuttered for two decades,…
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…
Climate change puts California’s snowpack under the weather
The Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides 60 percent of the state’s water via a vast network of dams and reservoirs, has already been diminished by human-induced climate change and if emissions levels aren’t reduced, the snowpack could largely disappear during droughts, according to findings in the study published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Questions, Queries, and Cogitations: Sustainable Buildings, Inside and Out
Winter 2017 - Week 7: Sustainable Buildings: Pauley Pavilion