Ph.D. in Environment and Sustainability

Intricacies of L.A.’s urban ecosystem are focus of new UCLA podcast

Just witness the excitement around sightings of the city’s famous wild animals. One recent Los Angeles Times headline read, “Famed mountain lion P-22 makes dramatic appearance in Beachwood Canyon backyard.”…

Air conditioning: Environmental loss, human win

With a warming climate, a key win-lose solution is air conditioning. In hotter conditions, workplace productivity suffers, students learn less, and mortality rates are higher. Fortunately, we have a way…

The criminal tragedy we are all party to

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Researchers create framework for evaluating environmental stopgap measures

UCLA study offers new way to look at temporary solutions that could buy more time for our planet

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PhD candidate Edith de Guzman gives her take on what cities are doing to prepare for rising global temperatures

Edith de Guzman, director of Research for Tree People & UCLA PhD candidate, discusses how cities are preparing for climate change with CGTN’s Rachelle Akuffo.

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PhD candidate Edith de Guzman in The Guardian: Cooling goo sidewalks and other strange new weapons in the war on urban heat

Creamy asphalt sealant lowers the surface temperature of a road roughly 10F. But the shade from a mature, leafy tree can provide more like 40-50F (22-28C) of cooling power, on…