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Magali Delmas and Emma Barnosky in Boston Business Journal: How to boost recycling — Reward consumers with discounts, deals and social connections
Magali Delmas and Ph.D. candidate Emma Barnosky address how to overcome recycling challenges.
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Chad Thackeray and Alex Hall Study in The Hindu: Arctic Ocean May be Ice-Free for Part of Year by 2044, Finds Study
Chad Thackeray and Alex Hall assessed 23 models’ depiction of seasonal ice melt between 1980 and 2015 and compared them with the satellite observations. Their study finds that the Arctic…
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Daniel Swain in The Mendocino Voice: PG&E raises risk of power shut-off to “elevated”
As climate change continues to modify weather patterns and increase the duration of fire-seasons, readers are encouraged to follow UCLA climatologist, Daniel Swain, on Twitter.
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Alex Hall Quoted in The Student Life: 5C Student Activists Push Pomona College to Divest from Funds Tied to Fossil Fuels
Pomona College alumnus and Director of UCLA’s Center for Climate Science, Alex Hall, says “I think it’s time to divest. Pomona should be a leader, not a follower.”
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Chad Thackeray and Alex Hall in Phys.Org: Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044
Chad Thackery and Alex Hall research the surface’s reflectivity of sunlight, or albedo, that causes greater local warming, which in turn leads to further ice melt. They find that the…
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in Conservation International: ‘Protecting nature, building peace’: Indigenous activist wins prestigious award
“The voices of indigenous people are being heard here — through me, through all of you and through this prize,” said Ibrahim after receiving the award, which included a US$…
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Daniel Swain in Ventura County Star: Fire Season Not Over as Most of California Dubbed ‘Abnormally Dry’
Daniel Swain discusses how fire season extends well beyond spring and summer in California.
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Daniel Swain in Yale Environment 360: 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… those things are still true, but…
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U.S. Embassy in Chad: Former IVLP Participant Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Wins Prestigious Environmental Award from UCLA
Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award recipient and native of Chad, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, receives $100,000 for work uniting cultures around a shrinking water resource that serves four African nations.
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Stephanie Pincetl in Daily Bruin: California needs Policies to Build Housing Able to Withstand Climate Disasters
Limited urban space has forced rising neighborhoods to sprawl away from major cities. But, building more affordable housing might be anything but affordable in the long run. Stephanie Pincetl, professor-in-residence…
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Daniel Swain quoted in Wildfire Today
Daniel Swain comments on the first ‘catastrophic’ fire designation (the highest level, above ‘extreme’) for Sydney, Australia and its suburbs since the country’s new fire danger rating system was introduced…
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JR DeShazo in UCLA BluePrint: Climate Change is Real
When the Trump Administration last year disbanded a committee of scientists advising the Environmental Protection Agency, UCLA’s J.R. DeShazo and other researchers from around the United States obtained outside funding…
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2019 Pritzker Genius Award Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in The New York Times
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a guest on the “Mothers of Invention” podcast which features women of color and indigenous women from around the world in the climate crisis who are…
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Daniel Swain in Bay Nature: How to Start Adapting to California’s “Precipitation Whiplash”
In a 2014 paper in the journal Nature Climate Change, climate scientist Daniel Swain concluded that California could expect increases in the frequency of wet and dry extremes, with both…
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Daniel Swain in NBC New York: Fact Check, Trump Again Misunderstands Calif. Wildfires
University of California, Los Angeles climate scientist Daniel Swain also pointed to the Golden State’s climate and geography, which he said “sets it completely apart from any other region in…
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Daniel Blumstein in National Geographic: To save a species on the brink, look to where its ancestors thrived
“Expanding the range of a rare species may be a good idea under certain circumstances, but putting an animal into an ecosystem where it has not recently occurred is not…
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Daniel Swain in LA Times: Extreme storm could overwhelm Southern California dam and flood thousands
Federal engineers have found that a dam protecting the high desert communities of Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley and Barstow falls short of national safety standards and could erode and collapse…
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Daniel Swain in the Weather Channel: Parts of Fire-Weary California Suffer Through One of the Longest Waits For the Rainy Season on Record
Parts of California may reach one of their driest starts to the rainy season on record with no rain in sight to quench the fire-weary state’s thirst. In recent weeks…
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Jon Christensen in City Lab: California’s Wildfires Are Not a Morality Tale
The fire-scorched state’s history has long been marked by calamities. But its latest disaster did not come to teach Californians a lesson. “Every crisis is not an apocalypse, and every…
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Jon Christensen in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: A not-so-hot take on California fires, climate change, smoke waves—and the stories we need, to survive
Jon Christensen writes for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about climate change and California’s wildfires. “We are living in a world of media hot takes. They come at us fast and furious,…
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2018 Pritzker finalist in Options: Nat Geo lines up trailblazing women on screen and in print
If you are looking for cool inspiration, meet the Women of Impact — a group that does not hesitate to go where their heart leads — on the National Geographic…
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Daniel Swain in NPR: Assessing Recent California Wildfire Damage
Daniel Swain spoke with NPR’s Leila Fadel about California’s wildfires. He noted the damage has been light compared to past wildfire seasons.
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Daniel Swain in LA Times: California fires were bad, but they could have been much worse
Daniel Swain, climatologist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said the air pressure differential between the high desert and the coast turned out to be smaller than…
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Daniel Swain in Inside Climate News: Another Rising Cost of Climate Change: PG&E’s Blackouts, Now Needed to Prevent Wildfires
“This weekend was a confluence of both bad luck and long-term climate trends, plus those other issues,” said Daniel Swain a climate scientist at UCLA.
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Indigenous peoples on the front line of the climate crisis
By Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim I’m Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an Indigenous Mbororo woman from Chad and an environmental activist. Climate change is inflicting a terrible humanitarian crisis on my people. The…
