UCLA geographer Glen MacDonald named to John Muir Endowed Chair
Professor MacDonald has been selected as the first occupant of a new UCLA chair in geography named after the naturalist and activist who helped preserve the Yosemite Valley as a…
Is aging infrastructure to blame for UCLA water main break?
Originally posted by 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio A busted water main sent a geyser shooting 30 feet in the air and flooded Sunset Boulevard and UCLA yesterday. About…
Graduation 2014
Video produced from the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability 2014 Graduation Ceremony.
African International Meeting on Malaria and Related Haemosporidian Parasites of Wildlife fold up in Yaounde. Reaction...
Posted by Congo Basin Institute - CBI, Cameroon on Monday, July 7, 2014
African International Meeting on Malaria and Related Haemosprodian Parasites of Wildlifeife
A student researcher’s reaction to the NSF-sponsored Research Coordination Network for Haemosporida (Malaria RCN)’s African workshop in Yaoundé, Cameroon, with students from Cameroon, Nigeria, and Ghana in attendance.
Thriving in a Hotter L.A.: Turning Los Angeles into a Global Model for Urban Sustainability
The IoES and Women & Philanthropy at UCLA joined together to present “Thriving in a Hotter L.A.: Turning Los Angeles into a Global Model for Urban Sustainability.” IoES Associate Director…
Biological invasions: What’s new, and why the controversy
5th Annual La Kretz Public Lecture by Professor Daniel Simberloff, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville presented May 4, 2014 at the UCLA…
Transforming our Common Environment and Energy Futures: Perspectives on the Journey from Public Servant to Private Citizen
On February 12, Lisa Jackson visited the IoES, talked with faculty and students, and gave the Winter Oppenheim Lecture. She inspired admiration, challenged people to “be influential” in their careers,…
Confronting a Superstorm of Challenges: A New American Grand Strategy
Featuring Department of Environmental Health Sciences Chair and IoES Professor Dr. Richard Jackson.
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…
Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles — UCLA Grand Challenges
UCLA Grand Challenges Grand Challenge projects set ambitious yet achievable goals to tackle some of society’s most pressing issues through multidisciplinary innovations and breakthroughs. UCLA will channel the resources of…
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.
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…