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Daniel Swain in NBC News: Hundreds of thousands lose power as Northern California braces for more wildfires
Hundreds of thousands of people lost power in dozens of California counties Sunday as weather forecasters predicted the most powerful winds of the year and the potential for more raging…
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Daniel Swain in The Los Angeles Times: Powerful winds, high wildfire danger are forecast for Northern California
Extraordinary wildfire conditions are forecast for Northern California on Sunday, with the National Weather Service predicting powerful and dry Diablo winds — the kind that quickly spread the devastating wine…
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Daniel Swain in The Guardian: Northern California on alert as high winds increase wildfire threat
Residents of northern California are bracing for another weekend of high wildfire risk, as fierce winds expected for Sunday afternoon increase the danger of fresh fires in the bone-dry region. The…
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Daniel Swain in CNBC: ENVIRONMENT ‘We are out of time:’ Destructive wildfires in Colorado will grow worse as season lengthens, scientists warn
Wildfire season in Colorado would normally be nearing its end by now. Instead, dry conditions fueled what’s now become the state’s largest wildfire in history. Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate…
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Beate Ritz in The Swaddle — India Has the Most Infant Deaths Due to Air Pollution in the World: Report
Around 1.16 lakh infants in India died due to air pollution exposure in 2019, the most of any other country in the world, according to the State of Global Air 2020 report,…
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Pritzker Finalist Leah Penniman writes for Harper’s Bazaar: To Free Ourselves, We Must Feed Ourselves
2020 Pritzker Finalist, farmer, activist, and author Leah Penniman writes about the fight for food sovereignty for Harper’s Bazaar. “I prefer the term “food apartheid,” which indicates that the vast…
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Beate Ritz in The Guardian: Polluted air killing half a million babies a year across globe
State of Global Air report says indoor air quality causing two-thirds of the deaths and affecting health in the womb. Air pollution last year caused the premature death of nearly…
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Tom Smith moderates biodiversity discussion for World War Zero
UCLA Professor and Center for Tropical Research Director Tom Smith moderated a World War Zero Facebook Live discussion on biodiversity with Dr. Kristen Ruegg (Asst. Professor at Colorado State University…
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Pritzker Finalist Leah Penniman in Bay Journal: Black farmers embrace African practices as empowering
In recent years, Axum said he has noticed a “big movement” among Black farmers toward embracing organic methods. These aren’t practices borrowed from White organizations and individuals but rather from…
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Alex Halll in Scientific American: California’s Mega Fires Have Arrived 30 Years Early
Climate models that looked at temperature change could not foresee the effects of drought and fire suppression. The UCLA study, which included researchers from the University of California, Irvine, saw earlier…
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Jason Cong in Semiconductor Engineering: Power/Performance Bits
Computer scientists at the University of California Los Angeles found that current compilers for quantum computers are inhibiting optimal performance and argue that better quantum compilation design could help improve computation…
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USAID grant supports Congo Basin Institute’s Distance Learning Center
The Congo Basin Institute (CBI), UCLA’s first foreign affiliate, recently received a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the building of a Distance Learning…
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Ann Carlson in The Hill: Environmentalists sound alarm over Barrett’s climate change comments
Environmentalists are sounding the alarm over Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s comments this week casting doubt on the science of climate change, saying her remarks should disqualify her from sitting on the…
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UCLA Fielding School of Public Health adds nine new faculty for 2020-2021 academic year
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health welcomes nine new faculty members, in four different academic departments, in time for the 2020-2021 academic year including Miriam Marlier, assistant professor of environmental health…
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UCLA Offers New Green Building LEED Lab Course Beginning Fall 2020
The “LEED Lab” course will follow the program developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and offer team-oriented, project-based and hands-on learning. It will provide practical instead of theoretical experience…
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Bradley Shaffer in UCLA Newsroom: UCLA draws record $1.4 billion in research funding
UCLA attracted record support for its wide-ranging research in the 2019–20 fiscal year, receiving $1.427 billion in research funding. The UCLA College, home to the university’s divisions of life and…
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Glen MacDonald in Le Devoir: California, a state on the fringes of American politics
On the environmental level, California does indeed stand out with, among other things, stricter rules on air quality, as well as a carbon exchange system that it shares with Quebec,…
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Daniel Swain in USA Today: Fact check: Some of viral post’s facts that ‘stand up for the Golden State’ lack context
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California-Los Angeles, fact-checked Melissa Hillman’s viral post and said that fire is common in…
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Daniel Swain in The Los Angeles Times: Fire-dampening rain for California fizzles; more heat and possible Santa Ana winds are on the way
Chances of beneficial rain in Northern California have largely done a vanishing act, the National Weather Service said. After a brief respite, Southern California returns to temperatures that are well…
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Ann Carlson in The American Prospect: Four More Years of Trump Would Be an Environmental ‘Fiasco’
By weakening clean air and water standards, rolling back regulations, and allowing more drilling on both federal lands and waters, Trump’s EPA is just making it easier for polluters to…
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Deepak Rajagopal in BBC: Can Peru’s beloved dish help save Machu Picchu?
Unesco threatened to place Machu Picchu on its List of World Heritage in Danger in 2016 because of the unsustainable ways in which the site was being run. Prof. Deepak…
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Sean Hecht in Bloomberg Law: Supreme Court’s Climate Case Focuses on Procedure, Not Policy
Baltimore sued oil companies over local climate impacts and the U.S. Supreme Court last week added an important climate change case to its docket, giving oil and gas companies another…
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Pritzker Finalist Leah Penniman in Yahoo! Finance: America’s Black farmers work to uproot racism
Soul Fire Farm, is a “BIPoC-centered community farm” — the acronym standing for Black, Indigenous and People of Color. The 80-acre (32-hectare) farm was founded in 2011 by an African-American…
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Daniel Swain in The New York Times: What Made This a Record Fire Season? It Started With Lightning
An unusual confluence of weather conditions sent nearly 14,000 bolts of lightning into the dry, hot forests of Northern California in August. But that was only the beginning.
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Alex Hall in The Guardian: Smoke choking California again as dangerous fire conditions continue
Smoke from nearly two dozen wildfires burning across California will continue to darken skies across the west this weekend, as residents prepare for more heat, toxic air and conditions that…
