IoES in the News
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Alan Barreca in The Los Angeles Times: Northwest heat wave swamped the vulnerable, was a harsh climate wake-up call
“The really important and complex point is that places that are already hot — and are going to get hotter — are already adapted. They have air conditioning and they…
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Alex Hall in NPR: In California, 1 State Is Seeing 2 Drastically Different Responses To The Drought
Every corner of California is in drought, and it’s playing out very differently in two of the largest metropolitan areas – San Jose and Los Angeles. Climate change is affecting…
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Dennis Lettenmaier in The Guardian — West Nile virus: another alarming side effect of US drought
A growing body of research shows that the West Nile virus can thrive in drought conditions in the American West. According to UCLA scientist Dennis Lettenmaier, tools to combat the…
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Rebecca Shipe in the Daily Bruin: UCLA researchers to study effects of wastewater spill in Santa Monica Bay
UCLA researchers tested water for environmental hazards affecting ocean life following a recent sewage spill in the Santa Monica bay. The 17 million gallons of sewage spewed from the emergency-use…
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Alex Hall Quoted in The New York Times: A Crucial System of Ocean Currents Is Faltering, Research Suggests
Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study, said that although the findings did…
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Gregory Okin in Popular Science: How to lower your dog or cat’s carbon pawprint
“I like dogs and cats, and I’m definitely not recommending that people get rid of their pets or put them on a vegetarian diet, which would be unhealthy,” UCLA geography…
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UCLA Engineers Clinch First Place in Global Sustainability Innovation Competition
A team of UCLA researchers took home the top prize on Wednesday at the 2021 Liveability Challenge for their work on using seawater as a medium for carbon removal. The UCLA…
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Pablo Saide featured on VOA News: fires can generate their own weather
Pablo Saide discusses how fires can generate their own weather and that when they get to be so extreme that can result in fire-generated thunderstorms and other phenomena.
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Daniel Swain in Wired: Oh Good, Now There’s an Outbreak of Wildfire Thunderclouds
Huge pyrocumulonimbus clouds just formed over fires in the West. Here’s why they could become more common on a warmer planet. “If there is an increase in these clouds, the…
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Program co-produced by UCLA storytelling lab wins local Emmy
An episode of the series “Earth Focus,” which is co-produced by UCLA’s Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, or LENS, has won a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award. The episode, called “Coal Mining…
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Daniel Swain quoted in Axios — Study: Get ready for many more record-shattering heatwaves
All I can say is, wow, what a remarkably prescient paper,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, noting that it was completed and submitted for publication prior to…
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Stephanie Pincetl in The Hill: Humans are the cause of most wildfires. Climate change will make that worse
In California, the electric utilities’ infrastructure runs through highly flammable areas. “There’s just no question about that because we bring electricity long distance into the urbanized areas,” said Stephanie Pincetl,…
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Daniel Swain in Grist: Is climate change happening faster than expected? A climate scientist explains.
“I’m less convinced that recent events tell us that things are moving faster than projections have suggested,” Swain said. “But I am increasingly convinced that we’ve underestimated the impacts of…
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Daniel Swain in The Washington Post: Here’s what to know about dry thunderstorms and how they increase wildfire risk
“And if that layer under the cloud base is somewhat dry, as it often is out West, a lot of that water can evaporate before it actually hits the surface.…
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Alex Hall in UCLA Newsroom: Climate change definitively linked to increases in extreme rain and snow, UCLA research finds
A UCLA study published in Nature Communications shows definitively that abnormally heavy rain and snowfall events around the world are becoming more severe due to human-driven climate change. “These findings…
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Daniel swain in The Guardian: Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany
The intensity and scale of the floods in Germany this week have shocked climate scientists, who did not expect records to be broken this much, over such a wide area or…
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Daniel Swain in KQED: Drought-Stricken California Hasn’t Mandated Statewide Water Restrictions. Here’s Why
Former Gov. Jerry Brown required Californians to conserve 25% of their water during the third year of the last major drought. State leaders have not yet taken that step during this…
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Daneil Swain on Slate Podcast: It’s Hot. It’s Flooding. Is This the New Normal?
In this episode of Slate’s “What’s Next: TBD,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses why it’s not too late to turn things around and what are the right questions to…
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Edith de Guzman weighs in for Nature: Racism is magnifying the deadly impact of rising city heat
Scientists are mapping correlations between race, poverty and heat in cities, and suggesting solutions to reduce the dangers. In Los Angeles, researchers have calculated that two basic interventions — planting…
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Daniel Swain in The Guardian: American west stuck in cycle of ‘heat, drought and fire’, experts warn
As fires propagate throughout the US west on the heels of record heatwaves, experts are warning that the region is caught in a vicious feedback cycle of extreme heat, drought…
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Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett for The Startup Pill — 29 Innovative Mining Startups Worth A Follow In 2021
ESE student Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett’s startup listed as one of 29 innovative mining startups worth a follow in 2021.
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Daniel Swain in The Los Angeles Times: California fires are burning faster, getting harder to fight
Vegetation is at record-dry levels for this time of the year, and it is at least six weeks ahead of where it should be, said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.…
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Richard Jackson in The Los Angeles Times: Biden has a plan to remove some freeways. Will it make cities more healthy?
President Biden’s plan calls for highway removal to right historical injustices and improve the health of people who live nearby. At least four bills in Congress would fund such efforts,…
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Deepak Rajogopal in MIT Technology Review: Why the grid is ready for fleets of electric trucks
Existing technology can support heavy-duty electric trucks that travel short distances, though longer trips still pose a challenge. “You can always keep waiting for the perfect technology to come,” Deepak…
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Governor Newsom Holds Virtual Discussion with Leading Climate Scientists on State’s Progress Toward Carbon Neutrality
Governor Gavin Newsom today hosted a virtual meeting with internationally renowned scientists and climate change experts, including IoES’ director Marilyn Raphael, to discuss California’s ambitious climate goals, efforts to protect…
