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Miranda Wang and Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in TIME Magazine: Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
2018 Pritzker award winner Miranda Wang and 2019 Pritzker award finalists Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim listed in TIME magazine 15 women leading the fight against climate change.
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William Boyd in LA Times: Opinion- California can help save the Amazon rainforest. Do we have the guts to try?
UCLA Law’s William Boyd argues California has a chance to do its part on tropical deforestation by “staying in the fight” alongside leaders in tropical forest states and provinces.
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UCLA in KCET: Unquenchable Thirst- Groundwater Bill Could Shift State’s Water Management Approach
This system is making a critical contribution to the county’s ambition to become water independent by 2050, an ambition that the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability believes Los…
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Jon Christensen in Mirage News: Neighborhoods getting new parks could prevent displacement with targeted policies
UCLA researcher Jon Christensen with University of Utah professor Alessandro Rigolon found policies that might help reduce “green gentrification,” that is, the displacement of residents and small businesses when parks…
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The Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability research on transportation demand management
The Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability sponsored three student interns to research transportation demand management (TDM) ordinances for implementation of the first ever County Sustainability plan. The…
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Jon Christensen in Mirage News: Neighborhoods getting new parks could prevent displacement with targeted policies
UCLA researcher Jon Christensen with University of Utah professor Alessandro Rigolon found policies that might help reduce “green gentrification,” that is, the displacement of residents and small businesses when parks…
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Jon Christensen in City Lab: How to Build a New Park So Its Neighbors Benefit
The Los Angeles River only intermittently resembles an actual river, even though that’s what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers entombed in concrete in the 1930s. Since then, its 51-mile…
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Glen MacDonald Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Ninety-three new Fellows in the Academies of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science have been elected by their peers for their outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement. Recognition by…
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Daniel Swain in Curbed LA: Warmer fall predicted for LA as ‘blob’ settles off California coast
A massive “blob” of warm water is lurking off the California coast, and it could mean that Los Angeles won’t experience a true autumn. (Does it ever, though?) UCLA climate…
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Jon Christensen in Capital Weekly: Why California needs another water bond in 2020
Jon Christensen writes for Capital Weekly about a 2020 ballot for safe drinking water, drought preparation, wildfire prevention, and climate resilience.
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Stephanie Pincetl in Daily Bruin: LA County and UCLA could face similar obstacles in plans to go carbon neutral
Phasing out fossil fuels in LA County will be challenging for several reasons, one of which is the county’s historical legacy of oil drilling, said Stephanie Pincetl, professor-in-residence at the…
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Daniel Swain in Mercury News: The ‘Blob’ is back: New marine heat wave emerges off West Coast
A massive marine heat wave that caused record warming of ocean waters off the West Coast five years ago, sending salmon numbers crashing and malnourished sea lions washing up on…
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Jon Christensen in UCLA Newsroom: Prioritizing equity helps ensure poor communities receive benefits of bond measures
UCLA’s Jon Christensen discusses his new study of California’s Proposition 1
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Daniel Blumstein in NPR: The Other Twitterverse: Squirrels Eavesdrop On Birds, Researchers Say
Squirrels eavesdrop on the casual chitchat of birds to figure out when it’s safe enough to be out in the open and foraging for food. Researchers have found that a…
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Daniel Swain in CNBC: Freaked out about the future of the planet? Don’t let fear ruin your finances
With the planet at stake, who can blame you for not saving 10% of your income for a future you’re not sure will arrive? While it’s easy to feel powerless,…
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Travis Longcore in Truth or Fiction: How Much Ground Would the Amazon Rainforest Fires Cover Inside the United States?
While the final toll of their damage has yet to be assessed, enough fires had torn through the Amazon rainforest in August 2019 that a similar outbreak would devastate several…
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Magali Delmas in Daily Bruin: Legislative act could create catalyst in reduction of statewide plastic waste
Magali Delmas, a professor and the director of the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance, said she hopes this bill will encourage entrepreneurs to create and promote plastic alternatives. Those…
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Deepak Rajagopal in UCLA Newsroom: To accelerate environmental benefits of EVs, prioritize miles over ownership
In an article in Environmental Research Letters, UCLA associate professor Deepak Rajagopal and Amol Phadke of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories argue that, despite fast-growing demand, the potential of battery-powered electric vehicles…
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Dr. Michael Stenstrom awarded Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal
The Fair Medal recognizes accomplishments in the education and development of future engineers. This award honors Gordon Maskew Fair, a professor of sanitary engineering at Harvard University. This year’s recipient,…
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Daniel Swain in InsideClimate News: What Does ’12 Years to Act on Climate Change’ (Now 11 Years) Really Mean?
Despite the rising risks, it’s important to understand that, “in the physical climate system, there are no scientists claiming that there is a magical threshold that we breach or don’t…
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Liz Koslov in NY Times: How to Rebound After a Disaster: Move, Don’t Rebuild, Research Suggests
“I’m so glad that these kinds of pieces are getting written and that they’re laying out this sort of agenda for research and practice and thinking around these like very…
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Daniel Swain in LA Times: Could a hurricane lash Los Angeles? 80 years ago, this deadly storm came close
The heat wave and the tropical storm were probably related. As Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, says, the storm not only broke the heat wave, it also played…
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Bradley Shaffer in Berkeley News: How red-eared invaders are hurting California’s native turtles
Red-eared sliders are the most commonly traded pet turtles in the world, but are often released into the wild by disgruntled owners when they get too big to handle. Thanks…
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PhD candidate Edith de Guzman in The Guardian: Cooling goo sidewalks and other strange new weapons in the war on urban heat
Creamy asphalt sealant lowers the surface temperature of a road roughly 10F. But the shade from a mature, leafy tree can provide more like 40-50F (22-28C) of cooling power, on…
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Yifang Zhu in Time Magazine: How to Avoid Vehicle Pollution When You’re Stuck in Traffic
Most non-electric motor vehicles emit multiple airborne pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, hydrocarbons, and ultrafine chemical particles. Breathing in these pollutants can cause or contribute to a wide range of health problems, from…
