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Yoram Cohen in Daily Bruin: What causes the different tastes in types of drinking water?
Yoram Cohen, a chemical and biomolecular engineering professor, said water may also taste different if it has been contaminated with other substances. For example, if water has a high content…
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Gregory Okin in Vox: I don’t eat meat. Should my dog?
Should a dog be vegan? There are compelling reasons to say yes. The environment, for one: American dogs and cats eat roughly a quarter of the animal-derived calories consumed in…
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Noam Rosenthal Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge finalist
UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability PhD student Noam Rosenthal and Anderson students Hadley Stork and Jonathan Tenenbaum were selected as finalists to compete in the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing…
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Tanner Waters awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
First generation college student, Tanner Waters, was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The prestigious award provides three years of support to graduate researchers. Growing up 15 minutes…
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Tom Smith in Ecology and Evolution: Remembering Africa’s Congo Basin on Earth Day
Thomas B. Smith, is a professor in Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is…
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Monica Smith in Time: Don’t Feel Bad About Getting Take-Out. That’s Been Normal for Thousands of Years
Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities that have much in common with ancient urban centers. UCLA’s Monica Smith writes about the history of cities and…
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Monica Smith on the history of cities
Monica L. Smith is an archaeologist and professor at UCLA. Her fascinating new book, Cities, looks at the 6,000-year-old phenomenon of urbanism. She draws on her fieldwork at archaeological sites…
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Alan Barreca in mindbodygreen: The Crazy Reason Climate Change May Contribute To Infertility
A 2018 study analyzing 80 years of U.S. birth data found that high temperatures have a significant negative effect on fertility and birth rates in humans, too. While August and…
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Congo Basin Institute in BBC: How to save the ebony tree
Taylor Guitar and UCLA’s Congo Basin Institute are trying to save the ebony tree in Cameroon. This BBC video talks about the ebony project and how Taylor Guitars is investing…
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Yifang Zhu in LA Magazine: Sorry, Plant Ladies. Your Ferns and Philodendra Aren’t Purifying the Air
Cars clog the freeways day and night, causing a grayish-brown haze that can be seen for miles. But the dirty air doesn’t stop there. According to Yifang Zhu, a professor…
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Ann Carlson in NY Times: Climate Change Could Destroy His Home in Peru. So He Sued an Energy Company in Germany.
Ann Carlson, faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at U.C.L.A. School of Law, says that lawsuits linking fossil-fuel companies to the climate impacts of…
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Ann Carlson in Roll Call: An overeager legal strategy may endanger Trump’s energy goals
In August, Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, noted that the administration had lost four high profile environmental cases in the previous eight…
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Study Says California Farmworkers Need Better Pesticide Protection
A study out of UCLA finds counties not taking many steps to exercise their responsibilities under the state law. Lead author of the study and UCLA professor Timothy Malloy spoke with…
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Mark Gold on KPCC’s Take Two: Water Infrastructure
Mark Gold is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. He spoke with KPCC about water infrastructure. The super bloom already says it’s spring, but next week’s…
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Magali Delmas in The Union: Keep drinking until the headaches stop
In a study published in the Journal of Wine Economics titled “Does Organic Wine Taste Better?” Professor Magali A. Delmas of University of California Los Angeles’s Institute of the Environment downloaded…
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Deepak Rajagopal in the Hindu Business Line: A shot in the arm for electric mobility
Deepak Rajagopal is an associate professor at UCLA. Here he writes about EV buses and the “recently announced Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles Phase II (FAME 2.0), a…
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UCLA environmental plan can transform L.A.
A futuristic, comprehensive environmental plan for Los Angeles has been drawn up at UCLA. It’s known as the Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge. It is being hailed as a call to…
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Jon Christensen in Mackinac Center article: Sunny with a chance of apocalypse
In a January 2018 debate on climate change, Dr. Jon Christensen, an adjunct professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, made a comment that typifies the green push…
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Blaire Van Valkenburgh in Science News: Saber-toothed cats were fierce and family-oriented
Despite searching, scientists have not found obvious evidence of a size difference between the sexes in Smilodon; researchers can’t even tell which La Brea fossils are male or female. Size…
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Timothy Malloy in California Health Report: Counties Fail to Fully Protect People From Pesticide Exposure, Report Finds
California’s county agricultural commissioners are failing to implement state laws designed to protect farmworkers and people living and working near agricultural areas from exposure to toxic pesticides, a new report…
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Ann Carlson in Vogue: Do Americans Have a Constitutional Right to a Livable Planet? Meet the 21 Young People Who Say They Do
21 young plaintiffs—ranging from eleven to 23 years old—are suing the Trump administration for contributing to climate change. (The case, officially Juliana v. United States, goes by the nickname Youth…
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UCLA research: California’s Pesticide Regulators Are Supposed to Consider Safer Alternatives. Many Don’t.
In 2016, more than 190 million pounds of pesticides were applied to farm fields in California. And while the state has a system in place to protect farmworkers, children, and…
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UCLA pesticides study finds California, counties not doing enough to keep us safe
The research, released Wednesday by the University of California, Los Angeles, alleges a systemic lack of oversight by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) and county agricultural commissioners when it comes…
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Dennis Lettenmaier in US News and World Report: EPA Head Says Drinking Water a Larger Threat Than Climate Change
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said that drinking water, not climate change, is the largest global threat. Some experts disagree. Dennis Lettenmaier, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles…
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Jennifer Jay awarded the Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching
Jennifer Jay, professor of civil and environmental engineering, received the Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching. Jay incorporates a service-learning component in her classes, and teaches a year-long freshmen…
