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Ann Carlson in Bloomberg Environment: Can Climate ‘Test Cases’ Move Forward? It’s Up to Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is set to decide soon whether to greenlight state-court proceedings for several cases in which state and local government officials seek to hold oil companies accountable for…
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Daniel Swain in NBC News: What is a bomb cyclone?
“All bomb cyclones are not hurricanes,” University of California, Los Angeles, climate scientist Daniel Swain said. “But sometimes, they can take on characteristics that make them look an awful lot…
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Daniel Blumstein in Daily Bruin: Book by UCLA faculty explores adolescence, development among various species
UCLA’s Natterson-Horowitz and science journalist Kathryn Bowers detailed the life of Shrink, a spotted hyena in Tanzania, and other animals in their book Wildhood, published last month. The book explores…
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Daniel Swain in Zululand Observer: California turns off power to millions to prevent wildfires
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA in Los Angeles, tweeted that the power shutoffs were “a necessary bad idea in the short term” that shifts the financial costs from…
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Phys.org: Florida mangroves reveal complex relationship between climate and natural systems
A new study led by UCLA’s Kyle Cavanaugh of how Florida’s mangroves and salt marshes are affected by changes in climate, both man-made and natural, illustrates the complex interplay between…
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Daniel Swain in Wired: Power Shutoffs Can’t Save California From Wildfire Hell
As the winds move over the Sierra Nevada in eastern California, they flow like water over rocks in a stream, compressing and warming. Slicing through valleys, the winds gather more…
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Daniel Swain in National Geographic: How climate change primed California’s power shutdown
Over the past century, California has warmed by about 3 degrees Fahrenheit, more than the global average of about one degree Fahrenheit. Hotter air draws water out of plants and…
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Stephanie Pincetl in ABC News: How the California power outages reduce wildfire risk: What you need to know
“PG&E right now is very gun-shy of taking any risks”and doesn’t “want to be liable if something goes wrong,” said Stephanie Pincetl, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment…
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Stephanie Pincetl in KMBZ: How the California power outages reduce wildfire risk: What you need to know
“PG&E right now is very gun-shy of taking any risks” and doesn’t “want to be liable if something goes wrong,” said Stephanie Pincetl, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the…
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Kyle Cavanaugh in UCLA Newsroom: Florida mangroves reveal complex relationship between climate and natural systems
A new study led by UCLA’s Kyle Cavanaugh of how Florida’s mangroves and salt marshes are affected by changes in climate, both man-made and natural, illustrates the complex interplay between…
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Daniel Swain in PBS: Millions are out of power in California, but were the PG&E shutoffs necessary?
Propelling this drying-out process are the Diablo and Santa Ana winds, which start east of California. Autumn is the start of cold, low-pressure storms over the Great Basin, several thousand…
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Daniel Swain in Phys.org: California turns off power to millions to prevent wildfires
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA in Los Angeles, tweeted that the power shutoffs were “a necessary bad idea in the short term” that shifts the financial costs from…
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Daniel Swain in Wired: A Mass Power Outage, Twitter’s Data Misuse, and More News
On Wednesday night, PG&E started shuting off power for hundreds of thousands of California residents in an effort to prevent wildfires during a high-wind period. Though this may be necessary…
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Blaire Van Valkenburgh in Explore Big Sky:Yellowstone wolf teeth lead to extinction theory
Inside the Yellowstone Heritage and Research Center is a collection of 160 skulls of adult Yellowstone wolves. By examining the skulls, along with other collections from around the country and…
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Liz Koslov on NPR: Koslov on FEMA Buyouts of Flood-Prone Properties
Assistant professor of urban planning Liz Koslov spoke to NPR about Federal Emergency Management Agency buyouts of flood-prone properties. FEMA subsidizes the cost for local governments to buy out homes…
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IoES students in Daily Bruin: Student-led study finds drones can determine if ships are skirting pollution laws
A UCLA student-led study found that drones can be used to determine whether ships are following pollution regulations. The drones could help enforce air pollution requirements by examining ships’ emissions…
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Dan Blumstein in Daily Bruin: UCLA community weighs in on benefits of UC’s recent fossil fuel divestment
Daniel Blumstein, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, said he supports the UC’s decision to divest from fossil fuels. He added he thinks while financial reasons are important in…
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Blaire Van Valkenburgh in Lewiston Tribune: Yellowstone wolf teeth lead to extinction theory
Inside the Yellowstone Heritage and Research Center is a collection of 160 skulls of adult Yellowstone wolves. By examining the skulls, along with other collections from around the country and…
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Pritzker 2018 winner Miranda Wang and Pritzker 2019 finalist Hindou Ibrahim in India Times: 16 Women Fighting Climate Change
Miranda Wang is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BioCellection, that’s converting plastic waste into valuable industrial chemicals used in the making of familiar products like cars, electronic goods, textiles…
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Blaire Van Valkenburgh in The Bulletin: Broken Yellowstone wolf teeth reveal a theory about ice age extinctions
This may be a tale that only dentists can appreciate, but the teeth of dead Yellowstone wolves are helping scientists understand the life of predators more than 11,000 years ago.…
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Daniel Swain in Mashable: The fall heat wave was gnarly
Temperature records toppled, and some were smashed, over a vast region of the U.S. this past fall week, including record October highs in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Newark, Raleigh, Nashville, New…
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Susanna Hecht in Daily Bruin: Amazon fires product of environmental policy abuses, UCLA experts explain
Fires have been burning in the Amazon Basin since August, eliciting international attention. The spotlight has been focused particularly on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for his potential role in encouraging…
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Edith de Guzman in Bloomberg — The Problem With ‘Cool Pavements’: They Make People Hot
A tool to help solve the problem of urban heat islands could have an unwelcome side effect, new research in L.A. finds. From a managerial perspective, cool pavements offer plenty…
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Stephanie Pincetl in the Daily Bruin: UCLA’s carbon neutral goals would be nice – if it could actually commit to them
Katz has said earlier in the year that if UCLA cannot transition to renewable energy, it will pursue the purchase of carbon offsets, which allow buyers to offset their emissions…
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Blaire Van Valkenburgh in Montana Standard: Broken Yellowstone wolf teeth reveal theory about ice age extinctions
This may be a tale that only dentists can appreciate, but the teeth of dead Yellowstone wolves are helping scientists understand the life of predators more than 11,000 years ago.…