IoES in the News
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Brad Shaffer in Times of San Diego: Joint Effort to Rescue Endangered Native Pond Turtles Proves Successful
A team of biologists — including members from the U.S. Geological Survey, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Forest Service, University of California, Los Angeles, Endemic Environmental Services Inc.,…
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Pritzker Award Finalist Leah Penniman in NowThis: Here’s How Regenerative Farming Can Help Combat The Climate Crisis
Regenerative agriculture is a system of practices that focuses on soil health and increasing biodiversity — and it could help reverse the effects of climate change. ‘Human beings don’t inherently…
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Daniel Swain in UCLA Newsroom: Extreme rainfall projected to get more severe, frequent with warming
Across the continental United States, massive, often-devastating precipitation events — the kind that climate scientists have long called “hundred-year storms” — could become three times more likely and 20% more…
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Ann Carlson in Vox: How Joe Biden plans to use executive powers to fight climate change
“I think one big strategy that will be important for a Biden Administration without a Democratic Senate is to have a suite of climate policies rather than relying too heavily…
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Daniel Swain in The Los Angeles Times: California sizzled with three straight months of record heat and raging fires
In the midst of the state’s most destructive wildfire season, California shattered temperature records in August, September and October. All three months were the state’s warmest on record, according to a…
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UCLA researchers win Ecography Award for Excellence
UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology professor Morgan Tingley and visiting graduate researcher Austin Spence were awarded the Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution, or E4 Award, for their…
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Pritzker Award Finalist Leah Penniman in The New York Times: Follow these three farms during the harvest of 2020
The New York Times followed 3 small farms where they found people cultivating way more than food. Take a look at Leah Penniman, @soulfirefarm co-director and Pritzker Award finalist tackles…
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Robert Wayne in Nature: Ancient dog DNA reveals 11,000 years of canine evolution
Genomes trace how the animals moved around the world — often with humans by their side. The largest-ever study of ancient genomes from the animals suggests that where people went,…
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Daniel Swain in Smithsonian Magazine: Colorado’s Record-Breaking Blazes Illustrate the West’s Lengthening Fire Season
Colorado has experienced one of the worst fire seasons in state history. Colorado’s fires have been burning since July and have now extended far beyond the region’s normal fire season,…
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Daniel Swain in The New York Times: 90,000 Told to Flee as California Fires Nearly Double in Size
As two wildfires raged across Southern California on Tuesday, nearly doubling in size overnight and forcing thousands more people to flee their homes, the state’s utility companies are again coming…
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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…
