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CABAlliance – Mist Netting Birds in Ebo Forest, Cameroon
Dr. Thomas Smith sets up mist nets to catch birds at the Njuma Camp of the Ebo Forest.
Surveying H2O in Southern California
Stephanie Pincetl, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability, speaks about her continued work to map the different organizations and entities that…
UCLA video: 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles Aqueduct from Owens Valley
UCLA adjunct professor of history Jon Christensen, the editor of Boom: A Journal of California, hopes that this special issue of the journal serves as an intelligent guide to the…
Pole to Pole: A Global WarNing – How the Ice Foretells the Next Systemic Transformation
An Oppenheim Lecture featuring Sebastian Copeland, award-winning photographer, explorer, extreme athlete, and environmental advocate.
Daily Bruin Editorial: Sage Hill preservation would be small expense to UCLA
Originally published by Editorial Board in the Daily Bruin Throughout UCLA’s campus, building is the trend. The Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference and Guest Center will soon rise from the rubble…
Daily Bruin Submission: UCLA must make preservation of Sage Hill a priority
Originally published by Thomas W. Gillespie in the Daily Bruin Sage Hill is a small patch of wildlife in the northwest corner of UCLA’s campus that still contains native flora…
Pritzker family’s $15M gift to UCLA supports research on environment, sustainability
This gift to the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability creates endowments for multiple faculty positions, the Center for Urban Sustainability, and the $100,000 Pritzker Prize in Sustainability.
Can We Ensure the Future of Water?
The UCLA Water Resources Group, founded by the IoES, works with environmental organizations and government agencies to improve water management in Los Angeles.
Tracking California’s ‘Super Salamanders’
This is a tale of two amphibians and one difficult question. An interview with Prof. Brad Shaffer on Southern California Public Radio
Creating Regenerating Cities: Case Studies from Around the World
In an urbanising world, cities have new responsibilities for dealing with their increasingly global environmental impacts. Can they become pioneers of sustainable, or indeed, regenerative development? Can modern cities find…
Students’ assignment: Help Fijians get clean drinking water
A team of graduate students, including Environmental Science & Engineering doctoral candidate Michelle Thompson, are working to improve the condition of potable water and wastewater systems in Fiji.
Environmental engineers from UCLA assess rural water conditions
A group of graduate students, led by Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor and IoES Affiliate Eric Hoek, are conducting research in Fiji.
Environmental science students participate in Eco Inventor Showcase
Education for Sustainable Leadership Program Action Research Team members Emily Anderson and Joanna Wheaton presented their water conservation plan at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s Spring Green Expo.
L.A.’s Climate Future: What’s Coming and What Choices We Face (Highlights)
Highlights of the Oppenheim Lecture by Alex Hall, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences & Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
L.A.’s Climate Future: What’s Coming and What Choices We Face
About the Lecture Scientists have been warning about the global impacts that climate change will bring over the coming decades — but what do those impacts mean for Los Angeles?…
Farmers Markets: Bruins like to feed on fresh fruit and vegetables
The L.A. Times Food Section profiled the UCLA Farmers Market which is co-managed by environmental science students Joanna Wheaton and Jasneet Bains.
The Anthropocene and Environmental Communications
A short film by Jon Christensen and Terry Chen featuring guest lecturers for the undergraduate course “Environment 150 – Journalism, Science Communications, and New Media.”
Studying the physical units of heredity to help wildlife thrive
The UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science led its first Annual Workshop in Conservation Genomics at the Center’s field station on March 23-28, 2013
Al Gore on “Winning the Conversation”
The Institute of the Environment an Sustainability hosted the second annual An Evening of Environmental Excellence on March 5, 2013 in Beverly Hills. The gala recognized the environmental leadership of…
Scientists decode genome of painted turtle, revealing clues to extraordinary adaptations
UCLA conservation biologist and lead author Brad Shaffer collaborated with the Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis and 58 co-authors to sequence the first turtle genome and uncover clues about how people can benefit from the shelled creatures' remarkable longevity and ability to survive for months without breathing
Prof. Brad Shaffer receives $631,000 NSF grant for salamander project
This project provides an unparalleled opportunity to study the spread of genes between species in real time, and to understand how species adapt to changing environments
The Global Amphibian Biodiversity Crisis
Watch the 4th Annual Public Lecture sponsored by the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science at King Gillette Ranch in Malibu, California on April 7, 2013. Since the…