IoES in the News

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Climate change is hastening the arrival of a different “Big One” in California. The New York Times features Daniel Swain and Xingying Huang’s research on the state’s coming megastorm.

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“Our findings suggest that some birds may have been able to use more spaces in cities because our human footprint was a little lighter,” said Sanderfoot, who completed the study…

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“When water comes at such a high rate from the sky, it’s really hard to capture it. And so it ends up being more destructive than it is beneficial,” said…

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“If it (passes)… it will mark a true milestone in the United States,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It will be the first legislation in…

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Yoram Cohen, a desalination expert and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UCLA  weighs in on Catalina Island’s desalination plant, its impact, and the drought.  “At the end of…

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There’s not necessarily an increase in the number of fires in the West, “but the fires are bigger, more severe, and last longer so the total area burned per year…

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“Climate change is clearly increasing the severity and frequency of unprecedented extreme heat events globally,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Yahoo News…

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The final group of candidates for the 2022 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award includes a government official, an environmental startup evaluator, an epidemiologist and a wildlife director.

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The next group of candidates includes Latino environmental leaders, the CEO of a solar capsule company, an Antarctic oceanographer and an energy director advocating for the protection of Indigenous lands.

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Bad air can mislead birds, causing them to fly into the flames instead of to safety. “Carbon monoxide poisoning, if it doesn’t result in fatality, can also cause confusion. It…

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More detailed data collection and analysis will be important in this effort and others, and it will be led by the California Center for Sustainable Communities — specifically leveraging its Energy Atlas, which can show city officials where resources are being consumed and at what level, down to the individual building or unit. “Anything that has a spatial characteristic, we can examine and provide an analysis for it,” said Stephanie Pincetl, founding director of the center. “Our motivation is to work at consumption through the lens of equity. How much are they using? Where? And to do what, and under what conditions?”

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“Climate change is making extreme and unprecedented heat events both more intense and more common, pretty much universally throughout the world,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. “Heat…

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For Travis Longcore, president of the Los Angeles Audubon Society and professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the very act of paying attention to your natural environment and the wildlife…

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Air conditioning saves lives. But as the planet warms, more AC use stresses the grid and drives up emissions, accelerating climate change. “​​AC is really critical—it’s absolutely life-saving,” says University…

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This week’s brutal European heat wave? Yep, dust played a part, said Thomas Painter, a senior research scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who specializes in snow hydrology…

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The second group of five candidates for the 2022 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award includes a wildlife conservationist, a health and climate advocate, the founder of a carbon emission tracking company, a solar inventor, and a remote sensing specialist.

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The first group of five candidates for the 2022 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award includes a solar energy entrepreneur, a biotech innovator, a behavioral scientist, a physician, and the CEO of EnviroVoters.

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We extend our heartfelt condolences to the friends and family of environmental activist, Chicago 7 defendant, and UCLA IoES emeritus professor John Froines, who passed away last week. Some of…

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The decision in West Virginia v. EPA limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s jurisdiction to control greenhouse emissions from power plants while also limiting the power of federal agencies. The Supreme…

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Program wins for Best Individual Writing and Best Environmental Reporting

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UCLA Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Professor Emeritus Philip Rundel’s new book explores traits and strategies that allow plants to survive in some of the world’s harshest environments: California deserts.  “More…

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Meteorologists said the West’s megadrought won’t go away until La Nina does. “It’s much less likely that the Southwest will see at least even a partial recovery from the megadrought…

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Investors, legislators, and the general public remain in the dark about the sources of carbon-equivalent emissions that are heating up the planet without greater transparency standards like those proposed by…

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UCLA cogeneration plant. “You’re basically operating a large jet engine that has been strapped to the ground,” explained Eric Fournier, research director at the California Center for Sustainable Communities within the UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability. An impressive number and diversity of pipes – a description also courtesy of Fournier – line the inside of the facility, as do support structures for seismic stability.

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Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, said while California’s coastal areas may not face extreme heat this summer, places like the Central Valley foothills & Sierra Nevada may experience record…