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.…
Travis Longcore for ABC7 News—Efforts to Save the Birds We are Losing
Bird populations across the United States are plummeting at an alarming rate, with three billion birds lost since 1970, according to UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability professor Travis…
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…
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…
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,…
Biodiversity in 2050 LA
H. Bradley Shaffer, Director, La Kretz Center; Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
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…