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Daniel Swain: Yahoo News—How climate change is making California’s weather more extreme
“A lot of folks are saying, ‘Everything is getting more extreme, it’s wetter and drier and hotter and colder.’ One of those isn’t true,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain told…
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Morgan Tingley: The European Times—Magnetic Mishaps: Disturbances in the Earth’s Magnetic Field Could Lead Migrating Birds Astray
Earth’s magnetic field, which runs between the North and South Poles, is generated by several factors, both above and below the planet’s surface. Decades’ worth of lab research suggests that…
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Daniel Swain: WTHR.com, The Associated Press—Rainbow appears near Hollywood sign as snow falls near Los Angeles
“Nearly the entire population of CA will be able to see snow from some vantage point later this week if they look in the right direction (i.e., toward the highest…
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Daniel Swain: Phys.org—Heavy snow hits parts of southern California
Daniel Swain, a meteorologist at UCLA said a warming climate—caused by humanity’s unchecked burning of fossil fuels in the industrial age—had changed the nature of winter precipitation in the area.…
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Daniel Swain: Mirror—Los Angeles hit by first SNOW blizzard warning in 30 years with winter storms coming
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said: “This well may be the largest single-event snowfall in some parts of Southern California since the 1980s. “This is a big deal.” He added:…
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Daniel Swain: LA Times—Snowballs at the Hollywood sign: Does it signal the biggest SoCal snow event in decades?
Los Angeles and other nearby counties are bracing for a snowstorm unlike any seen in decades — or possibly ever. “This could be really substantial,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain…
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Daniel Swain: NY Times—California Prepares for Storm That Could Bring Beauty and Chaos
Where I [Vik Jolly, author] live in Riverside County, in the shadow of the Santa Ana Mountains, we haven’t seen snowy hillsides for nearly a decade. But there’s a good…
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Eric Hoek: UCLA Newsroom—Sustainable LA Grand Challenge launches initiative focused on transportation
A new initiative of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge intends to bring UCLA scholars together with community stakeholders to address a rotating list of four key topics related to sustainability: transportation,…
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Daniel Swain: The Press Democrat—Why the new Southern California storms could be so relentless, brutal and dangerous: Snow, rain, big waves, wind
“The mountains certainly will see significant snowfall. The deserts and some of the highest inland valleys might even see a little bit of flurries, although accumulation is less likely,” added…
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Sean Hecht: LA360.com—Earthjustice Adds Managing Atty In California From UCLA
Sean B. Hecht comes aboard as the office managing attorney for the nonprofit environmental law organization after two decades at UCLA
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Susanna Hecht wins Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography
UCLA professor Susanna Hecht has won the 2023 Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity from the American Association of Geographers. The award is presented annually to a geographer who has demonstrated…
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Daniel Swain: SF Gate—Nearly entire population of California expected ‘to see’ snow
“Nearly the entire population of CA will be able to see snow from some vantage point later this week if they look in the right direction (i.e., toward the highest…
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Daniel Swain: LA Times—Most of California could see snow this week, including the Santa Monica Mountains
“This is shaping up to be a very unusual event,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said in a virtual briefing Tuesday morning. “We are going to see low [elevation] snow all…
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Edith de Guzman: LA Times — Heat waves are killing more L.A. homeless people who can’t escape broiling sunEdith de Guzman: LA Times
About 150 people die every day in L.A. County during the summertime, but during an extreme heat event the deaths increase by 8% to 30%, according to Edith de Guzman,…
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Mark Gold quoted in LA Times: Environmental rules stoke anger as California lets precious stormwater wash out to sea
“Hopefully the memory of what happened at Oroville is not lost on people’s minds,” he said, referencing the 2017 crisis in which high water levels nearly overtopped the massive Oroville Dam.…
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Jasper Kok in earth.com: Atmospheric dust has been masking greenhouse warming
A new study led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has found that global atmospheric dust (microscopic airborne particles from desert dust storms) has a small, yet significant cooling effect on our…
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Eden, banana leaves and margaritas: Book recommendations from 2022 Pritzker Genius Award candidates
The Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award community brings together brilliant minds from around the world to share what they’ve learned. At the annual award ceremony, nominees place some of their…
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Eric Porse in California Ag Today: Named Director of California Institute for Water Resources
Erik Porse joined the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources on Jan. 11 as director of the California Institute for Water Resources.
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Alex Hall on CBS8: California hit by heavy rain, but is it enough to end the drought?
”We are on the express train for sure. It’s been storm after storm. But they’re very important, the main source of moisture for the western part of the US especially…
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Alex Hall in US Sun: These wet-air rivers are “the main source for moisture for the western part of the U.S., especially the coastal states
These wet-air rivers are “the main source for moisture for the western part of the U.S., especially the coastal states,” Alex Hall, UCLA’s Center for Climate Science director, told CBS.
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Morgan Tingley in EurekaAlert When migrating birds go astray, disturbances in magnetic field may be partly to blame
A new paper by UCLA ecologists explores one reason: disturbances to Earth’s magnetic field can lead birds astray — a phenomenon scientists call “vagrancy” — even in perfect weather, and…
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Alex Hall in NY Times, How Much Will These Storms Help Relieve California’s Drought?
“These storms are really good news, and they’re exactly the news we need at this point in time, but we still have a long ways to go,” said Alex Hall,…
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Alex Hall: CBS News, Will the atmospheric rivers drenching California beat back devastating drought? “It’s very unpredictable.”
Atmospheric rivers are very important — “the main source for moisture for the western part of the U.S., especially the coastal states,” said Alex Hall, director of the Center for…
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Brad Shaffer: LA Times: Geneticists are advancing the cause of conservation with a new breed of sanctuary
“My goal is to map glaring hot spots of genetic diversity,” said Brad Shaffer, an evolutionary biologist at UCLA who has devoted more than a decade to the cause of conserving assemblages of life forms with the greatest likelihood of adapting to future climate conditions. Now, as director of UCLA’s La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, he leads a team of 114 researchers drawn from all 10 University of California campuses that is creating the most comprehensive genomic dataset of native species ever assembled for conservation science.
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Edward Parson in La Voce di New York: California Startup Seeks to Counter Global Warming with Geoengineering
The negative effects of sulfur dioxide emissions into the atmosphere include the potential for ozone layer destruction, respiratory disease, and acid rain. But according to UCLA environmental law expert Edward…
