What 2024’s record-breaking rainfall says about the next El Niño
Scientists say the stage is set for potentially higher records for extreme rainfall in 2027
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News
Forest fires significantly worsening across Africa’s tropical nations, data shows
The Congo Basin Institute's Faculty Director Elsa Ordway explains the risk fires pose to people and nature in the Congo Basin.
Saving California’s ancient oak trees with DNA analysis
La Kretz postdoctoral researcher fellow Ryan Buck talks about UCLA's partnership with The Nature Conservancy to study plant DNA to help California’s oak trees adapt to climate change.
Yosemite toad killer may be hiding in their own homes
UCLA biologists have discovered a fungus decimating amphibian populations around the world can live-and infect frogs-in their burrows, helping inform a captive rearing and reintroduction program to protect the species.
Events
The Snail Darter and the Politics of Taxonomy
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UCLA La Kretz Garden Pavilion & Event Venues | Mathias Botanical Garden
The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability invites you to our Fall 2026 lecture with Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University Thomas Near
How to Tell the Story of a City
Perloff Hall Decafe
Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic at The New York Times and founder of Headway. He has written from more than 40 countries and was for some years a columnist…
Book Talk | The Myth of Sustainable Cities: Losing the Holocene
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UCLA La Kretz Garden Pavilion
Join us for a conversation with IoES Professor and Founding Director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA Stephanie Pincetl about her new book, "The Myth of Sustainable Cities: Losing the Holocene"
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Zuzana Buřivalová wins UCLA’s 10th annual Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
Using bioacoustics, the conservation scientist has made a global difference for tropical forests and countless lives — human and otherwise