Video: Expert insights on the causes, impacts and aftermath of the L.A. wildfires
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and and UCLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge recently hosted a virtual seminar addressing the historic wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles in January 2025.…
Climate chaos with climatologist Daniel Swain
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain joined EarthSky’s Dave Adalian for a live discussion on the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events caused by climate change. Swain, known for…
UCLA’s Comprehensive Sustainability Plan
UCLA has a long history of sustainability leadership — from early energy efficiency efforts and the formation of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability in the 1990s, to the establishment of…
Governor’s Climate and Forest Task Force: Remote Sensing Workshop at UCLA
The Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force) held its first Remote Sensing Workshop at the University of California Los Angeles in June, 2023. The workshop was designed…
Inconvenient Environmentalist: Peter Kareiva Uncensored
Environmental scientist Peter Kareiva of UCLA has angered fellow environmentalists when talking about the environment. His unique take on things and tell it like it is style allows him to…
UCLA Climate Scientist Aradhna Tripati: #infiniteLA
“I try to connect the research and education that I do on the environment, climate change and earth science to social justice and to the quest to create a much…
How Climate Change Will Impact California, Interview with Dr. Alan Barreca
Interview on The Young Turks ScIQ with UCLA environmental economist Alan Barreca by Jayde Lovell about climate change effects on public health, vulnerable communities, and the state of California. They also…
A Climate Series for the Ages: Living with Climate Change, Part 4
Imagining Futures for a Hotter Planet Artists, writers and media organizations are playing vital roles in conveying the science and ethics of global warming. This conversation will explore how experiments…
A Climate Series for the Ages: Living with Climate Change, Part 3
A Tale of Two Cities: Los Angeles & Beijing It is tough to feel urgency when climate change seems like something happening to future generations, in faraway lands. The reality…
How Snow Shapes Warming in the Sierra Nevada
Dr. Alex Hall and his team at the UCLA Center for Climate Science undertook a comprehensive investigation of future climate in California’s Sierra Nevada. A key factor in the severity…
A Climate Series for the Ages: Living with Climate Change, Part 2
Earth & Human Climate History We can get hints about what climate change could mean for our planet and the things that live on it by looking at climate change…
A Climate Series for the Ages: Living with Climate Change, Part 1
Climate Change Cliff Notes There are so many questions about climate change and climate science. Is climate change right now really worse than climate change in the past? Isn’t it…
Student practicum team drills into urban oil fields
A student-led survey has uncovered stark disparities in public health outcomes for L.A. neighborhoods with oil and gas drilling.
Starting my town hall in Pasadena at Caltech to discuss the perils of climate change and the Trump Administration's counterproductive -- and destructive efforts -- to reverse the gains we are making. Watch here:
Posted by Congressman Adam Schiff on Friday, April 21, 2017
Climate Change Town Hall
On April 21, 2017, Rep. Adam Schiff held a town hall on climate change at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium. Center for Climate Science Director Alex Hall joined the panel, along with…