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Blaire Van Valkenburgh in Patch: What Wolves’ Teeth Reveal About Their Lives
UCLA biologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh links an increase in fractured teeth to a dwindling supply of prey. UCLA evolutionary biologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh has spent more than three decades studying…
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Travis Longcore in The Atlantic: The Dark Side of Light
By the turn of the millennium, ecologists were taking notice too. In 2002, the American researchers Travis Longcore and Catherine Rich organized the first conference on the ecological consequences of…
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Alex Hall on KCRW’s Greater LA: How Climate Change Will Affect Southern California
Alex Hall, climate scientist and director of the UCLA IoES Center for Climate Science, talks with KCRW’s Steve Chiotakis about what climate change has in store for the Los Angeles…
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Ann Carlson in LA Times: Gov. Gavin Newsom blasts Trump at climate event: ‘I’m absolutely humiliated’
“As a way to bolster Gavin Newsom as a climate leader, it’s hard to imagine a better opportunity for him than having the great climate denier in the White House…
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Aradhna Tripati on KCRW: We answer your climate change questions
You shared your questions about climate change. For answers, we reached out to Aradhna Tripati, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Tripati says perhaps what’s most…
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Pritzker finalist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in UN Environment: Climate connects everything
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Coordinator for the Association of Peul women and Autochthonous People of Chad, explained that Lake Chad is evaporating at an alarming rate, with biodiversity loss impacting wildlife…
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Ann Carlson in Washington Post: How decades of L.A. smog led to California’s war with Trump over car pollution
Ann Carlson reflects on air quality in Los Angeles. “People don’t realize just how bad it was and how much better it is today,” said Carlson, who’s writing a book…
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Liz Koslov in VICE: We Need to Talk About a Planned Retreat from Climate Disaster Zones Now
“When we see depictions of retreat or hear about it as this kind of last resort, the sense is that it will be forced,” said Liz Koslov, an assistant professor…
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Travis Longcore in The Boston Globe: There’s too much artificial light at night to see stars. That’s a problem
“At the end of the day, the one sort of big thing that you can touch people with is the idea of losing our sense of place in nature and…
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Pritzker candidate Han Chen on UN Climate Summitt
According to the latest IPCC report, the world needs to drastically reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants worldwide. For several months, the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has said…
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Stephanie Pincetl in UCLA Newsroom: UCLA Arts invites the public into the classroom for ‘10 Questions: Centennial Edition’
The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture will kick off the second edition of “10 Questions” on Oct. 1. Building on the success of its inaugural presentation in 2018,…
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Daniel Swain in Laist: Is LA’s Marine Layer Going To Burn Off Someday And Never Ever Come Back?
Los Angeles’s summer marine layer — aka June Gloom, aka May gray — is one of the most unique aspects of living along the coast. It keeps things cool through…
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Ann Carlson on KCRW: Trump says California will no longer be able to set higher fuel efficiency standards for cars
Ann Carlson spoke on KCRW on Trump’s attempt to rollback automobile pollution. Governor Gavin Newsom today promised to fight President Trump’s announcement that California will no longer be granted a…
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Mary Nichols in California Globe: President Trump Set to Revoke California’s Authority to Set its Own Auto Emissions Standards
In May, California Globe reported “California’s top environmental regulator, California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols, has stepped up the state’s war against the Trump Administration, as well as the state’s…
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J.R. DeShazo in UCLA Newsroom: UCLA to assess California drinking water systems to identify risks and solutions
California is the only state to legally recognize a human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water. But this right is not yet a reality in all communities. About…
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Money Matters podcast — with David Colgan, director of communications for UCLA environmental institute
Discussing environmental communications and green markets via The Green Bundle, a book Colgan co-authored with UCLA professor Magali Delmas.
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William Boyd in Rome News Tribune: Commentary: How California can help save the rainforest
William Boyd writes for the LA Times about what California can do about the burning rainforests. Fires burning in Brazil and the broader Amazon basin are shining a spotlight on…
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David Colgan in LAist: Reduce. Reuse. REFILL. Where To Get Your Products Topped Off In LA
Shopping smart is a part of the shift David Colgan, communications director of The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and co-author of The Green Bundle: Pairing the…
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Ann Carlson on MSNBC: How the opioid ruling could help sue big oil companies
“Oil companies are fighting tooth and nail to try to get every one of these cases dismissed. One reason is they don’t want to pay the money. A second reason…
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Jon Christensen in Grist: How to build a new park so its neighbors benefit
All cities hunger for new property tax revenue. But all of these park projects at some point aspired to provide green space in neighborhoods that historically had little access to…
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Monica Smith in City Metric: Podcast- The Ancient Regime
The present is terrible and the future may be worse, so let’s take refuge in the past. Monica L. Smith as an archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University…
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Liz Koslov in NY Daily News: How to advance by retreating: As climate change advances, it’s time to think about leaving the coasts
“I would like us all to think of “retreat” as not just retreating from unsustainable places but unsustainable ways of life,” Liz Koslov, assistant professor at UCLA offered recently at…
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Ursula Heise in South Pasadena Review: Squawk of the Town
“They always begin to move out at first light and back to their roosts about 45 minutes before sunset. It is a sublime experience to hear and see them,’’ said…
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Pritzker finalist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in Down to Earth: ‘Giving community rights to indigenous people will benefit nations, nature’
Environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaks to Down To Earth about how these communities are solution providers for issues surrounding land, climate change and biodiversity Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, former co-chair,…
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Jon Christensen in Los Angeles Sentinel: New UCLA Study – State Makes Progress On Goal To Guarantee Water As A Human Right
In 2012, California became the first state in the country to declare that “Every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water” when the state legislature…
