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Why Marine Biology Matters to You in a High CO2 World
Robert Eagle Tripati, Assistant Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
One Scientific Vision for a Sustainable Planet
Stephanie Pincetl, Director, California Center for Sustainable Communities; Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
A Game Changer for Sustainability
Deepak Rajagopal, Assistant Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Biodiversity in 2050 LA
H. Bradley Shaffer, Director, La Kretz Center; Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Congo Basin Institute: UCLA’s New Foreign Affiliate
Thomas B. Smith, Director, Center for Tropical Research; Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
N.Y. Times’ Andrew Revkin on climate change, adaptation and aliens
Award-winning journalist Andy Revkin joined LENS for an intimate look at his evolution of environmental thinking and some potential outcomes for life on Earth.
La Kretz Center Discussion: Life in the L.A. River
A discussion presented in partnership with the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum With the imminent revitalization of the L.A. River, the city’s landscape is about to transform. But how…
Climate change still up for debate?
Debate moderators have used immigration, gun control and abortion to contrast the ideological differences of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and her Republican counterpart Donald Trump. But they avoided climate change—an…
Water Management in Los Angeles County: a Research Report
PI: Stephanie Pincetl, Director CCSC Co-PI Madelyn Glickfeld, Director WRG In 2012, the Haynes Foundation awarded the California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC) at UCLA a multi-year grant to research…
Tiffany Yap comes to the rescue of salamanders
Tiffany Yap, a recent graduate of the Environmental Science and Engineering doctoral program, has already found herself in the academic limelight. Her research on the potential decimation of salamanders was…
Dissertation Year Fellowship
Jordan Rosencranz has been awarded a UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, which is designed to help students in the final writing stage of their doctorates. For his research, Rosencranz partnered with…
The Eco-Educator: Dennis Mabasa, Environmental Science, 2012
'If I Can Make Half My Students Declare Environmental Science I've Done My Job.'
LA Energy Atlas Update
Since the launch of the Los Angeles Energy Atlas (energyatlas.ucla.edu) in 2015, CCSC has been collecting, processing, mapping, and analyzing updated building energy consumption data for Los Angeles County and beyond. See attached for more…
Cheap Solar is Great, but Don’t Forget About Storage
By Eric Daniel Fournier, M.A., M.E.Sc., Ph.D. In June of this year, the global news media reverberated with reports of a record shattering low bid for the world’s cheapest commercial…
Environmental visions get a new LENS at upcoming symposium
A new era of stories for our changing planet will debut at UCLA’s EARTH NOW: EARTH 2050, a three-day symposium at the recently opened Luskin Conference Center on October 18,…
L.A. River is a living experiment
The L.A. River is getting a massive makeover. To many Angelenos, the cement-lined urban waterway has become a symbol of future hope that past environmental harm can be remedied. A…
The $77 billion bug invasion
Ten species of invasive insect account for $77 billion in annual global economic damages, according to the first in-depth study on the subject, published today in Nature Communications. Even that…
The future for wildlife in a revitalized L.A. River
Will the restored waterway once again be a habitat for native fish and plants? A UCLA La Kretz Center expert weighs in
A planetary perspective from Kathryn Sullivan, head of NOAA
Sullivan is Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the first American woman to walk in space. She’ll be at UCLA on October 18 to deliver the…
Pacific Ocean’s response to greenhouse gases extends California’s drought
Clues from prehistoric droughts and arid periods in California show that today’s increasing greenhouse gas levels could lock the state into drought for centuries, according to a study led by…
A fresh water perspective from Africa
The borehole well has an electric-powered pump, so power outages also mean water outages. I had bottled water to drink, but then I realized that no power means I can’t…
Local Mountain Lion Population Faces Precipitous Decline in Genetic Diversity Within 50 Years, Possible Extinction
A paper published by La Kretz postdoc John Benson and National Park Service scientists found that mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains face the possibility of extinction in the near future
Human tales on extinction and endangered species
Ursula Heise was surprised by the animal’s intelligence and ability to communicate. She began observing birds and other animals in nature and thinking about their survival through the lens of…