Beating the Heat at UCLA’s Sage Hill
Wildlife visit a bird bath at Sage Hill on the UCLA Campus during a fall heat wave in October 2026.
Videos
Video: Expert insights on the causes, impacts and aftermath of the L.A. wildfires
https://youtu.be/PzfuAN8kfpE?si=zjIwCch9LhHW-uv7 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…
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…
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…
Dr. Pincetl Speaks to UCLA Alumni Town Hall: Climate Change and Sustainability
Dr. Pincetl Speaks to UCLA Alumni Town Hall: Climate Change and Sustainability
Dr. Pincetl spoke with the Environmental Science without Borders UCLA Chapter
Getting Beyond Tropes: Cities for the 21st Century Dr. Pincetl spoke to the Environmental Science without Borders (ESWB), a subsidiary of UCLA's Center for Diverse Leadership in Science (CDLS), which connects students and early-career scientists from around the globe, regarding her research on urban metabolism water and energy policy, habitat conservation efforts, and the impact of land use in conjunction with climate change and climate policies.
UCLA La Kretz 2021 Annual Lecture
This event celebrates ten years of conservation research, featuring 3 minute lightening talks by each of our 13 past, current, and future La Kretz postdoctoral fellows. The presentations are followed…
Feed the Soil
by Desly Cervantes, Valerie Contreras and Steven Lucio of LAUSD/USC Media Arts and Engineering Magnet 2nd place: 2018 GreenShorts Climate Heroes Category
Challenges to Conserving the Congo Basin Rainforest
The future of our planet is Africa — in terms of people, biodiversity, habitats that are crucial for genetic diversity in the face of climate change, and some of…
Managing predators in fire-prone landscapes: the importance of vegetation structure
Seminar presented by Rachel V. Blakey, The Institute for Bird Populations and The University of Missouri
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…
Consumer Confusion: Organics and Wine
Eco-friendly wines taste better, but they don’t command higher prices in the marketplace. Learn why from UCLA professor Magali Delmas and Bonterra Organic Vineyards.
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…
White Mountain Research Center – Elevating the Sciences
At over 14,000 feet high, the White Mountains form a natural barrier between eastern California and Nevada. Less than 20 miles to the west, across the Owens Valley, loom the…
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
https://youtu.be/_EGYhQXdlzI Artists, writers and media organizations are playing vital roles in conveying the science and ethics of global warming. This conversation will explore how experiments in environmental storytelling and media…
A Climate Series for the Ages: Living with Climate Change, Part 3
https://youtu.be/PX_aXkLUa8c It is tough to feel urgency when climate change seems like something happening to future generations, in faraway lands. The reality is, it is and will affect all of…
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…