IoES in the News

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Visible improvements in air quality offer an opportunity for climate action, said Ann Carlson, a law professor at UCLA who specializes in the Clean Air Act. Climate policy is complicated…

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Replacing gas with electric appliances in California homes would prevent around 350 premature deaths each year and produce $3.5 billion in annual health benefits from cleaner air. This is according…

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Thomas  Gillespie, a UCLA geography professor, and his team created the Biodiversity Atlas of Los Angeles, a website that provides a better understanding of the region’s environment, biodiversity, and endangered…

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Peter Daszak, senior research fellow at the Center for Tropical Research was featured in a CNN article on coronaviruses. Daszak is a virus hunter. Over the past 10 years, he…

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If so, the White House agrees with you.  On April 16th the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final recommendation that it was no longer “appropriate and necessary” to regulate…

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James Bassett, a lecturer from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, said that victory gardens, often known as “liberty gardens,” were an effort to encourage Americans to grow their…

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The dean of Physical Sciences, Miguel García-Garibay and former IoES Director Mary Nichols were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary…

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Indigenous people account for less than 5% of the world’s population – but they support or protect 80% of the planet’s biodiversity. “Our people have survived for centuries,” says 2019 …

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Tom Smith, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was honored by the American Ornithological Society for decades of work studying birds. The Elliot Coues Award is given annually to “outstanding and…

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Elon Musk, CEO and founder of SpaceX, said on Twitter on Wednesday, April 22, that the failure of a single Merlin engine in the most recent Starlink launch was due…

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According to the BBC, “Indigenous people account for less than 5% of the world’s population—but they support or protect 80% of the planet’s biodiversity.” 2019 Pritzker Award winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim…

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Can there be any doubt that a reset of very nearly everything will emerge from this time of contagion and confusion?  2019 Pritzker winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim was a panelist…

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Lewis MacAdams, a poet and crusader for restoring the concrete Los Angeles River to a more natural state and co-founder of one of the most influential conservation organizations in California,…

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In this episode of Slate’s “How To!”,  Emma Marris, an environmental writer and Pritzker nominator, warns us not to fall into the trap of individual guilt. In other words, don’t…

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Reducing your own carbon footprint is not as powerful as calling governments and companies to account.  Environmental writer and Pritzker nominator Emma Marris writes “there are as many ways to…

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A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into one of the deepest “megadroughts” the region has experienced in more than 1,200 years,…

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The old impulse is to think of wildfires as creatures of the summer.  But that is no longer strictly the case in California.  Daniel Swain joins them to discuss change,…

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Scientists used thousands of tree rings to compare a drought that started in 2000 and is still going — despite a wet 2019 — to four past megadroughts since the…

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Dr. Yifang Zhu, an environmental health sciences professor at UCLA, and her colleagues examined Southern California air quality from March 16 to April 6 and found a 20% improvement during…

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Daniel Swain, a scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has researched the “hot drought” phenomenon in California. “I think this is interesting work and is indeed…

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The global coronavirus pandemic has inadvertently achieved what state officials have sought to do for decades: Californians have parked their cars. Freeways and highways are clear. And the constant burn…

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There is one positive impact of the tragic coronavirus pandemic — Los Angeles is experiencing its longest stretch of good air quality since 1995. “With less cars on the road and…

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A new study co-authored by IoES Director Peter Kareiva and researchers from Colombia concludes that a failure of government systems is the main cause of Colombia’s rapid deforestation.

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COVID-19 is a health, economic and social crisis, but it also holds out an opportunity for the world to move forward into a more equitable and green recovery. Women climate…

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Deforestation is skyrocketing in the country with the world’s second-highest number of species. The cause? Ineffective conservation in protected areas following decades of civil war.  Researchers from UCLA  including the…