IoES in the News
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Ryan Harrigan and Tom Smith Study Featured in Colorado State University Magazine — Death by solar: $1.6 million DOE grant supports scientists studying bird deaths at solar facilities
For several years, scientists and solar industry groups have documented evidence of birds, particularly migratory species, either colliding with solar panels or getting incinerated in the red-hot light of concentrated…
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Travis Longcore Mentioned in Directions Magazine — A Decade of Spatial Innovation: USC Spatial Sciences Presents 10th Annual Los Angeles Geospatial Summit
The Summit will also feature a group discussion on the topic of “GIS for Sustainability Science: How GIS is fundamental to our policies and practices that further sustainability and the…
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Mary Nichols Featured in LA Times: She Helped Make California a Clean Air Leader. Now Trump Could Upend that Legacy
In what she says is likely her last year in office, Mary Nichols, the chair of the state Air Resources Board and Professor in the UCLA Institute of the Environment,…
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Alan Barreca Study Featured in Daily Bruin
Climate change may cause childbirth to occur up to two weeks earlier than expected, according to a study led by Alan Barreca.
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Pritzker Award Nominator Emma Marris Gives Op-Ed for The New York Times: How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change
Emma Marris is a Pritzker emerging environmental genius award nominator and is the author of “Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World.” Here’s her five-step plan to deal with…
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Chad Thackeray in Daily Bruin — Campus Queries: How will climate change impact Arctic ice levels?
Chad Thackeray, researcher at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and first author of the study, said the Arctic is melting faster than other parts of the…
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Timothy Malloy Quoted in KCRW: Malibu’s Efforts to Ban All Pesticides Within City Limits
Malibu wants to outlaw all pesticides, including anticoagulant rodenticides that are used to kill rats, because those pesticides end up killing a lot of birds and other animals that prey…
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Eric Hoek Featured in The Daily Bruin: With New Leader, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Steadfast in Renewability Goals
The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge’s leadership may be turning over a new leaf, but its goals remain the same. Eric Hoek, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, was announced…
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Travis Longcore in Financial Times: How Light Pollution Affects the Lives of Garden Creatures
Artificial light severely disruptions feeding, breeding and communication among wildlife. Travis Longcore, associate adjunct professor at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has been working on the impact of artificial…
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Travis Longcore Quoted in Courthouse News Service: Experts Sound Alarm on Crusade to Change New York’s Time Zone
A New York lawmaker is kicking off 2020 by proposing the Empire State switch time zones. One of the bill’s Twitter challengers is Travis Longcore, an adjunct professor at UCLA…
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Liz Koslov Quoted in Curbed New York: NYC’s Coastline Could be Underwater by 2100. Why are we Still Building There?
Koslov is working on a book about Staten Island communities that rejected the rebuilding narrative. She recalls the first community meeting she attended in the borough, a few months after…
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Victoria Sork Study Featured in The Daily Bruin: Valley Oak Tree Could Provide Insight into how Plants will Adapt to Climate Change
A study led by evolutionary biologist Victoria Sork examines whether the trees being replanted in the wake of California’s fires will be able to survive a climate that is continuing…
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Mary Nichols Featured in Yale Alumni Magazine: The Climate in California
America’s most populous state has reduced its carbon output to 1990 levels. Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, IoES professor and UCLA Law professor in residence, led…
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Victoria Sork in GenomeWeb: Tree Resilience
Victoria Sork, a plant evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues have found that there is already a mismatch between ecosystems and their foundational species.
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Glen MacDonald Quoted in The Hill: Five Things to Know about Australia’s Devastating Wildfires
University of California, Los Angeles geography professor Glen MacDonald added that higher temperatures also contribute to a longer fire season. “Particularly in Southeastern Australia, that’s definitely been part of it,”…
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Daniel Swain Quoted in The People’s Vanguard of Davis — Commentary: Extreme Weather, Fires, Climate Change
“There has been an assumption that the main thing we have to contend with climate change is increased temperatures, decreased snowpack, increased wildfire risk” on the West Coast, said Daniel…
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Dainel Swain Quoted in Gizmodo Australia: This Was The Decade Climate Scientists Stopped Being Polite
“Imagine a 90s-era disaster movie in which NASA scientists warn that there’s a giant asteroid headed for Earth,” Swain told Earther. “Except, instead of conscripting Bruce Willis to go blow…
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Alex Hall in Herald-Mail Media: California, Climate Change and the Trauma of the Last Decade
Climate change simulations for California show more precipitation in wet years and deeper droughts in dry years, Hall said. And according to the models, he added, we are just now…
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Holly Jean Buck in Sierra Magazine: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?
Holly Jean Buck, a fellow at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, wants to bust up the misconceptions that plague how we talk about geoengineering. As Buck…
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Gregory Okin in Pet Food Industry: Could Greta Thunberg Shame Certain Pet Food Trends?
Gregory Okin, PhD, a University of California Los Angeles geographer, estimated the amount of greenhouse gases associated with meat eaten by U.S. pet dogs and cats. In 2017, PLoS ONE published…
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Alex Hall Quoted in LA Times: California, Climate Change and the Trauma of the Last Decade
Although climate change will probably make living in California more challenging than ever, Hall said that in his professional opinion, it’s still a good place to be. “There are a…
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Travis Longcore in ABC7 — Protecting the Monarch: Small Steps can Make Big Impact to Save Majestic Butterfly
Endangered butterfly expert Travis Longcore discusses how monarch butterfly migration is threatened with extinction.
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Daniel Swain Quoted in Canada’s National Observer: Climate Whiplash — Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are on the Rise
“There has been an assumption that the main thing we have to contend with climate change is increased temperatures, decreased snowpack, increased wildfire risk” on the West Coast, said Daniel…
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Daniel Swain in Los Angeles Times: Winter Solstice will be Immediately Followed by Wet Weather in Southern California
As Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, tweeted, “Indications of a more widespread (& cooler) pattern throughout California. No widespread storms, but looking refreshingly like winter.”
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Alex Wang in Newsroom: UCLA Students and Faculty Participate in International Climate Talks
Three students and four faculty members from UCLA School of Law participated in international climate talks in Madrid last week, advancing their research on climate policies and observing negotiations. The…
