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Angela Johnson Meszaros at UCLA discusses Quemetco’s Lead Legacy: A Cycle of Injustice and Contamination in Southern California
A new report details how Quemetco — the last remaining secondary lead smelter in California — has exploited a failed regulatory structure that does little to protect people and the environment.…
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Susanna Hecht in UCLA Daily Bruin—Recent rain reveals success of ‘green alleys’ program, according to UCLA faculty
Susanna Hecht, professor of urban planning, said the type of vegetation used in green alleyways is also important to consider. Urban planning professionals should consider incorporating plants that have lower…
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Alex Hall in NY Times—A Very Wet Winter Has Eased California’s Drought, but Water Woes Remain
“It’s sort of like if you are deep in debt,” said Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at U.C.L.A. Suddenly encountering a lot of cash “might…
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Daniel Blumstein in India Education Diary—Researchers Say Emerging Field Of Evolutionary Medicine Could Address Range Of Health Conditions
“It’s not about treating diabetes when a person gets it at 40, but about making the investment during childhood,” said Daniel Blumstein, a UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology…
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Q&A: Monica L. Smith on how humans have adapted to natural forces throughout history
‘The Power of Nature’ explores how people have responded to disasters
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The La Kretz Center’s 2022 Annual Report
Check out the innovative conservation research projects, stimulating public outreach events, and exciting funding programs that the center has supported over the past year!
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Park Williams in KSL.com—Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming
The big picture on water comes from data from a pair of satellites known as GRACE, or Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, that were used to measure changes in Earth’s…
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Daniel Swain in Cal Matters: Atmospheric rivers continue
According to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, as of this weekend, the Southern Sierra appears to have its largest snowpack in recorded…
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Daniel Swain in NBC News: California under flood threat releases millions of gallons from reservoir
“The primary management objective of flood operations is to reduce the risk of downstream flooding rather than conserve for the dry season to come,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist…
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Marilyn Raphael: Directions Mag—Geographers Examine Climate Resilience, Social and Racial Justice, Energy Transition, and more at Annual Conference March 23-27
5,600 geographers and geospatial practitioners from the public and private sectors and academia, including climate scientist Marilyn Raphael, AAG president and director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; political…
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Daniel Swain in Washington Post: ‘High risk’ of dangerous flooding as major storm bears down on California
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain called the latest storm a “classic ‘pineapple express-type’ atmospheric river event” with moisture originating near Hawaii.
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Farwiza Farhan: Asia Foundation Podcast—The Women Defending Indonesia’s Forests
Now, a band of forest defenders, organized and led by women, is demonstrating that social forestry can stop this kind of destructive exploitation by engaging the communities whose lives are entwined with…
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Daniel Swain: AOL News and The Hill—Yet another atmospheric river to flood California later this week
“It now appears increasingly likely that a potentially significant and very likely warm atmosphere river will probably affect some portion of Northern or Central California,” University of California, Los Angeles…
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Daniel Swain: LA Times—California braces for flooding, snowmelt from a warm atmospheric river set to slam state
“It now appears increasingly likely that a potentially significant and very likely warm atmospheric river event will probably affect some portion of Northern or Central California sometime between about late…
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Daniel Swain: Washington Post—Storms keep hammering California and this could soon become a problem
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, tweeted that — even if the snowpack is able to absorb much of the rain that’s to come —…
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Daniel Swain: US Times Post—Yet more rain is expected to hit California in March.
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said about 20% of forecast models are currently depicting a very strong and warm atmospheric river storm in California around mid-March. A series of nine…
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Daniel Swain: Christian Science Monitor—’This is just unreal’: California deals with epic snowfall
“If we can get through the rest of the season without any more roof collapses or snowmelt floods it will be quite a boon,” Mr. Swain said. The snowpack potentially…
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Gregory Pierce: LA Times—California’s snowpack is approaching an all-time record, with more on the way
Gregory Pierce, co-director of the Luskin Center for Innovation at UCLA, said it probably makes sense to consider easing some of the most extreme restrictions, but that conservation efforts should…
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Daniel Swain: Yahoo News—Warm atmospheric rivers in California forecast could spell trouble for massive snowpack
The risk of flooding could rise dramatically with the arrival of warm rains later this month.
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Daniel Swain: Washington Post—Half of California freed from drought thanks to rain, snow
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It has not ended the drought completely but we’re in a very …
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Daniel Swain: Yahoo News—Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said we could see “a historically significant snowfall for parts of the Southern California mountains.” “This well may be the largest single-event snowfall in some…
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Daniel Swain: Axios—California on track for record snow year as storms cause chaos across state
Climate scientist Daniel Swain noted in an online discussion that in the past decade, California will have experienced some of the most snowy years on record and also “the least snowy years…
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Brad Shaffer & Rachel Blakey quoted in Pepperdine Graphic: Funding Biodiversity Research Provides More Understanding Amid Climate Change Effects
“If you buy into the notion that having biodiversity around you is good for people, then we have to understand enough of the ecology and the biology of the relevant biodiversity in the area to be able to keep it with us,” said H. Bradley Shaffer, distinguished professor in UCLA’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department and professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
