IoES in the News
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Daniel Swain in Mercury News: Why fire scientists are so worried about Sunday’s weather
“Be prepared to leave before orders are issued during period of strongest winds. Fires may be moving too fast for effective notification,” tweeted Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the…
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Daniel Swain in LA Times: California enters uncharted territory: Massive blackouts, historically dangerous winds
The area of highest risk includes the Bay Area and points north, including the northern Sierra Nevada foothills and California’s North Coast region, said Daniel Swain, climate scientist with UCLA…
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Ann Carlson in CBC: Why Big Oil faces court cases that echo the litigation against Big Tobacco in the ’90s
How much did the oil industry know about the impact of fossil fuel emissions on the climate? When did they know it? And what did they do with that knowledge? Those…
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Daniel Swain in SFist: More, Wider-Spread Power Shutoffs Likely Coming To Bay Area Sunday
“The kind of event we might see Sunday and Monday is the kind of event where not only is it seemingly windy in these more remote regions in the hills,…
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Daniel Swain in SF Chronicle: PG&E outages could be far worse this weekend, hitting more of Bay Area
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Daniel Swain in SF Chronicle: The big questions: How long will I be without power? And could 2 outages this week merge together?
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said the winds this coming weekend could be more intense and widely felt than the ones that prompted PG&E’s shut-offs on Wednesday. “There’s going to…
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2019 Pritzker nominee, Jasmine Crowe, in Atlanta Business Chronicle:
Atlanta Business Chronicle has named our 2019 40 Under Forty honorees. The up-and-comers will be celebrated at an awards event Nov. 7 at The Fairmont in Atlanta. Here’s a Q&A with one…
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Ann Carlson in LA Times: Trump administration sues California over cap-and-trade agreement with Canada
“It is deeply ironic for the United States to make an argument that California is interfering with the United States’ ability to conduct foreign policy on greenhouse gas emissions when…
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Ann Carlson in New York Times: Fossil Fuels on Trial: New York’s Lawsuit Against Exxon Begins
Ann E. Carlson, co-director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles law school who has consulted pro bono with attorneys…
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Mary Nichols & Ann Carlson in Cal Matters: Here’s why California’s clean air fight with the feds matters
California’s latest clean air fight with Trump’s EPA is about more than backlogged paperwork — but it likely won’t hurt the state’s federal transportation funding anytime soon. Then last week,…
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Stephanie Pincetl in KCET: 10 Mold-Breaking Ideas on the Concept of Justice
Stephanie Pincetl, founding director of UCLA’s California Center for Sustainable communities, focuses on social and environmental justice and finding equitable ways to reduce human impact on the planet. She pointed…
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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…
