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LENS co-founder Jon Christensen in UCLA Newsroom: Faculty, students co-produce documentary on bipartisan environmental solutions
A new documentary exploring environmental politics, which was researched, reported and produced by UCLA faculty and students in conjunction with the Southern California public media channel KCET, is slated to…
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Daniel Swain in TIME: ‘This is Crazy.’ A Record 2 Million Acres of California Have Burned This Year With Heat Conditions Predicted to Continue
The state is experiencing another wave of record-breaking heat this weekend, and offshore winds beginning around this time of year—the Santa Anna winds in the south, and the Diablo winds…
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Daniel Swain in Washington Post: ‘Extremely dangerous’ fire threat in West after historic weekend heat while the Rockies await freak snow
After one of California’s hottest weekends ever observed, a severe fire threat encompasses much of the state and expands over large portions of the western United States. Yet, in a…
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Daniel Swain in TIME: ‘This is Crazy.’ A Record 2 Million Acres of California Have Burned This Year With Heat Conditions Predicted to Continue
In a Friday tweet, climate scientist Daniel Swain of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, predicted Monday’s new record. He tells TIME the prediction was…
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Daniel Swain in Washington Post: California endures record-setting ‘kiln-like’ heat as fires rage, causing injuries
California just witnessed one of its hottest weekends in memory, which intensified destructive wildfires that erupted. Daniel Swain, a climate researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles, said…
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Daniel Swain in San Francisco Chronicle: Helicopters rescue 200 trapped by fast-moving Creek Fire in Sierra National Forest
A highly dangerous wildfire that ignited in Sierra National Forest Friday evening exploded to 45,500 acres by Sunday. It trapped a number of people near a Fresno County reservoir on…
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Edith de Guzman and the Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collaborative in The Los Angeles Times: As second heat wave sears California, experts say health impacts will worsen with climate change
A recent study by the Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collaborative, which is developing strategies to combat urban heat, found that widespread tree planting and retrofitting of roofs and streets with…
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Daniel Swain in CNBC: Dangerous heat wave to hit California over weekend as wildfires still burn
A dangerous heat wave is expected to hit California over the weekend and trigger one of the hottest days in state history. “I am seriously concerned about this heatwave throughout…
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UCLA Fielding School of Public Health joins consortium to address environmental change and its health impacts
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (FSPH) has joined the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA), a consortium of more than 200 universities, research institutes, and government agencies committed to understanding…
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Daniel Swain in Patch — Studio City Heat Wave: 110 Degrees During Labor Day Weekend?
As if August’s heat wave wasn’t enough, Labor Day weekend will bring yet another grueling stretch of triple-digit temperatures. “[It] will probably be a bit more tolerable than during the…
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Tom Smith featured in Global Health Program Spotlight
The latest UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine’s Global Health Program (GHP) newsletter features Professor Tom Smith and his ongoing research on the connection between climate change and coronaviruses. The…
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Daniel Swain in Grist: How climate change fuels California’s biggest fires
If it seems like the wildfire season is getting worse and worse with each passing year, that’s not just your perception. It’s still early in California’s wildfire season, yet 2020…
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Daniel Swain in Tuscon.com: August just replaced July as Tucson’s hottest month ever recorded
August was Tucson’s hottest month ever recorded, with sizzling temperatures breaking the previous record — set in July. That means a greater fraction of solar energy goes directly into heating…
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Daniel Swain talks with NPR podcast, A1: What We Know About The California Wildfires
Firefighters in California continue to battle the wildfires burning across the state. To talk about those questions, as well as the ongoing debate about equal pay and opportunities for formerly incarcerated firefighters,…
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Marilyn Raphael takes helm at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Marilyn N. Raphael, the new interim director of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability! She is a Trinidadian climatologist &professor at the department…
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Daniel Swain in SF Gate: Heat wave coming to Bay Area, with temps to exceed 105 in some spots
It’s about to get hot, sizzling hot. Saturday will mark the start of a robust warming trend with inland temperatures climbing into the 100s over the three-day Labor Day weekend, according…
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Daniel Swain in Bakersfield.com: Why California’s 2020 lightning fires got so big so fast
“The fact we got such extremely large, fast destructive fires without any offshore winds is very unusual,” said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. “All of this hints at something which…
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Environmental economist wins award for sustainable management research
Magali Delmas, professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has received the 2020 Organizations and the Natural Environment Division Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy of Management for her work…
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2020 Pritzker Finalist Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner in The Conversation — Fridays for Future: how the young climate movement has grown since Greta Thunberg’s lone protest
The climate strike movement has grown into a network of global campaigns focused on systemic change to tackle the climate crisis. In the process, young people have outgrown the mainstream…
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Nick Russo receives Fulbright-Hays fellowship
Nick Russo is one of nine UCLA graduate students awarded a 2020 Fulbright-Hays study abroad fellowship. Russo’s research in Cameroon investigates the movements of hornbills (large, seed-dispersing birds) in response…
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Daniel Swain in EcoWatch: California Wildfires Destroy Condor Sanctuary, at Least 4 Birds Still Missing
One of the many wildfires raging through California has destroyed a sanctuary for endangered condors, and the fate of at least four of the birds remains unknown. However, University of California, Los Angeles scientist Daniel Swain said…
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Daniel Swain in KQED: How Climate Change Is Contributing to California’s Bad Fire Seasons
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and a prolific chronicler of California’s increasingly wild weather, discussed the impact of climate change on wildfires on KQED’s Forum radio program on Tuesday. Swain and other scientists…
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Daniel Swain in The New York Times — California Fires: Want to Control Blazes? Start More, Experts Say
Which leaves what Daniel Swain, a California climate expert, told the New York Times one smaller-scale fix to the wildfire crisis. Communities and homeowners themselves can better prepare by clearing fire breaks or…
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Edith deGuzman in Noticias Ulitmas: In the face of the heat wave, Los Angeles is testing innovative solutions to cool its streets
California has been experiencing an unprecedented heat wave since mid-August that affects the health of millions of inhabitants and promotes hundreds of fires. In Los Angeles, the city is relying on…
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Daniel Swain KQED Interview: The Link Between Climate Change and Wildfires
Record-breaking heat, dry vegetation, and lightning each played a role in sparking wildfires that have burnt more than one million acres across California. But to what extent were these factors…
