IoES in the News
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Daniel Swain in Vallejo Times-Herald: California Drought ‘Pretty Likely’ by Summer as New Report Shows State Growing more dry
Following another week without rain — and none forecast through the end of this month across Northern California — the federal government on Thursday announced that unusually dry conditions are…
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Daniel Swain in SF Gate: How Stressed Should Californians be about the Lack of Rain? Experts Weigh in
Daniel Swain, climate scientist, UCLA, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability: “Parts of California are headed for their driest February on record amidst what was already a very dry rainy…
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Daniel Swain in The Guardian: Dry February Sends California Back to Drought: ‘This Hasn’t Happened in 150 Years’
San Francisco and Sacramento have not seen a drop of rain this February, and climate scientists are expecting that disturbing dry trend to hold, in what is typically one of…
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Daniel Swain Writes for YubaNet.co: Very Dry Conditions to Continue at least Through Late February
Despite an early December reprieve (especially in southern California), conditions have increasingly become increasingly dry across most of the state since August 2019, writes Daniel Swain.
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Daniel Swain in the Sacramento Bee: Sacramento Ties Heat Records 2 Days in a Row. Is Cooler Weather or Rain on the Way?
As The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday, a high-pressure ridge lingering over the Pacific Ocean has kept the rain away from the region, according to UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.
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Daniel Swain in The Press Democrat — Not-So Rainy Season: Bone-Dry February to Stay that Way, Possibly Boosting Fire Danger
While a two- or three-week dry spell can be unnerving, said climate scientist Daniel Swain, author of the authoritative Weather West blog, “it’s not a big problem.” More worrisome, he…
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Daniel Swain in The Los Angeles Times: Strong Winds Flip Trucks like Toys, Blow down Trees in Southern California
February is typically the state’s wettest month, bringing an average rainfall of 3.8 inches to downtown L.A. But there have been only trace amounts of precipitation in downtown so far…
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Daniel Swain in The Sacramento Bee: California is Dry with no Rain in sight. Should we Start Worrying about Drought and Wildfire?
While the rainy season still has more than two months left, a persistent high-pressure ridge over the Pacific is keeping wet weather at bay, just as it did during the…
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2019 Pritzker Award Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Featured in BellaNaija: Here’s why Environmental Activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is so Particular about Climate Change
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), Chad is among the poorest nations in the world, and it is “already struggling with poverty and frequent conflict”. Making a reference to the…
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Daniel Swain in The Mendocino Voice: Winter Dry Spell Forecasted to Continue Well into February
It’s been a dry winter in Northern California, and meteorologists are forecasting a continuation of this trend for at least the next couple weeks. As explained by Daniel Swain, a…
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Postdoctoral Researcher Holly Jean Buck Writes for Legal Planet
Two recent reports try to figure out how to scale carbon removal. Holly Buck, a postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, is studying how technologies…
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2019 Pritzker Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Mentioned in The Humanist — Davos: Another “WEF” of Promise
This year’s World Economic Forum brought together a diverse collection of individuals from various sectors—business, government, nonprofit—as well as young people, scientists, and others to discuss how the assembled billionaires…
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Deepak Rajagopal in Agricultural & Applied Economics Association: Why are Low Carbon Biofuels Needed to Decrease Greenhouse Gases?
In a new article in the Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy (AEPP), Deepak Rajagopal from the University of California, Los Angeles, and others examine why biofuels are needed to reduce…
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Alex Wang in the Daily Bruin: Panel Talks Hong Kong Protests, Changes in Asia’s Political Climate
The UCLA International Institute, which promotes global research and study, hosted an open panel with a reporter and professors of law, history and political science at the UCLA School of…
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Gregory Okin in SF Examiner: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Pet Food
In 2017, Gregory Okin at the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of the Environment and Sustainability published a study on the environmental impact of dogs’ and cats’ meat consumption…
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Emma Marris in Chanel 2 KUTV: Natural History Museum of Utah Kicks off Lecture Series Running Through March 25
The 14th annual lecture series starts Tuesday in honor of the Natural History Museum of Utah’s current special exhibit, Nature All Around Us. The series continues until March 25 and…
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Ann Carlson in The Desert Sun – We Asked Presidential Candidates: Should California Set its Own Emission standards?
The Desert Sun enlisted emission standards expert Ann Carlson, who teaches environmental law at UCLA, to ask each of the candidates running in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary election a…
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Richard Ambrose Mentioned in Daily Bruin — Opinion: As UCLA Construction Ramps Up, Runoff Management Policies Should Do So As ell
“We have some (elements of green infrastructure) on campus but not nearly as many as some of the other (University of California) campuses,” said Richard Ambrose, a professor emeritus in…
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Charles Corbett in The Daily Bruin: UCLA Prepares to Change Heating System to Comply with New Federal Regulations
HCFCs, including R-22, have high global warming potential compared with other greenhouse gases, said UCLA fellow in environmental law Charles Corbett. “For R-22 … the global warming potential is a…
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PhD Fellow Holly Jean Buck in MIT Technology Review: Here’s How We Could Go Carbon Neutral in 25 Years
Holly Buck, a fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, who focuses on carbon removal issues, agrees with the broad conclusions of the report. But she says it will…
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Pritzker Award Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in Business Day: What Africa needs to know from WEF Davos
For the world’s most vulnerable, climate change is not a distant existential threat: it is killing people right now. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, president of the Association for Indigenous Women and…
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The Pritzkers, IoES & Victoria Sork in UCLA Newsroom: UCLA Psychology Department Receives $30 Million from Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation
UCLA has received a $30 million commitment from the Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation to support a major renovation of the Psychology Tower on the UCLA campus. In recognition…
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Ann Carlson in Forbes: Sacramento And Washington Face Renewed Conflict As They Crack Down On Truck Pollution
Killing the proposed zero-emission requirement would not only damage California’s ability to limit greenhouse gases (where the EPA believes the state has overstepped its bounds). It would cripple the state’s…
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Richard Ambrose in NewsWire: UCLA Expert Available for Comment on Planned Trump Administration Revisions of Federal Protections for Streams and Wetlands
Richard F. Ambrose, a UCLA biologist and marine ecologist with more than four decades in the field, is available for comment on planned Trump Administration revisions of federal protections for…
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Pritzker Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in OpIndia: Why are comedy ideologues abusing Sadhguru and what is at stake for us all
People, for example, who have taken up the objective to plant one trillion trees on the planet like Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim are the ones who are doing things that go…