IoES in the News
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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.…
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Research by Gregory Okin quoted in Greenwich Time: Biotech Startups Pounce on Cultured Pet Food
Pet owners spend $32.7 billion every year feeding their animals, but exactly what are they feeding them, and at what true cost? Environmental damage, unsafe ingredients and horrific production practices are standard in…
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Ann Carlson in IJR: Trump EPA Says California Must Protect Water Better From Homeless Waste
The Trump administration’s environmental regulator escalated its feud with California on Thursday, accusing the state of violating clean water laws by allowing human waste from homeless residents to enter waterways,…
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Jon Christensen in Capitol Weekly: Parks are a public health solution waiting on our doorstep
It’s time to shift the conversation around parks in California. New data is illuminating the need to look at state parks in communities a bit differently. Rather than measuring their…
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Liz Koslov in Daily Bruin: Youth and social media fuel movement demanding action to fight climate change
Organizations like the Environmentalists of Color Collective at UCLA have been working to oppose and solve environmental issues long before the strikes. Liz Koslov, an assistant professor of urban planning…
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Daniel Swain in Capital National Radio: Davis Tornado Unusual But Not Unprecedented For California
There was some wild weather over the weekend in Yolo County as residents in the Woodland and Davis area experienced a tornado and hailstorm. The twister occurred Saturday around 6:40…
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Pritzker finalist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in TIME: ‘We Know How to Keep the Balance of Nature’. Why Including Indigenous People Is Vital to Solving Climate Change
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, from the Mbororo pastoralist community in Chad, has spent a decade trying to get international policy on climate change to consider perspectives from indigenous communities like her…
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Daniel Swain in SF Gate: The bad news: PG&E power shut-offs will probably get worse, not better
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said the state is unlikely to get enough rain soon to stamp out its risky fire weather. Based on PG&E’s current criteria, that means more…
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PhD candidate Edith de Guzman gives her take on what cities are doing to prepare for rising global temperatures
Edith de Guzman, director of Research for Tree People & UCLA PhD candidate, discusses how cities are preparing for climate change with CGTN’s Rachelle Akuffo.
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Pritzker finalist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in The Spinoff: ‘We are the victims but we are also the solution’:
She was recently named by Time as one of the 15 women leading the fight against climate change. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim tells Kera Sherwood-O’Regan about the effects of the changing…
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Holly Buck in Nature: Books in Brief
“After Geoengineering” by Holly Buck is reviewed in Nature’s weekly Books in Brief
