KQED
Last year was California’s most destructive fire season — until this year. The Golden State is in the midst of what Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and the…
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Legal Planet
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US officials have yet to draw conclusions on the cause of the inferno. There is no doubt that the dry Mediterranean climate of California is susceptible to wildfires, but the…
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Pritzker winner Miranda Wang is the cofounder and CEO of BioCellection, a company that focuses on recycling polyethylenes, the most common but least recyclable type of plastic. Most polyethylenes, like…
Featured 2018 Pritzker Award Winner: Miranda Wang
“We need to move to a decarbonized economy, and that will require significant changes in land use, among other factors,” said Stephanie Pincetl, project principal investigator, professor in residence and…
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PBS SoCal
Studies show that what’s coming is ominous. By mid-century, the four to six weeks of extremely hot weather recorded in the San Fernando Valley each year might double, said Alex…
Featured Faculty: Alex Hall
Daily Democrat
While 3 degrees of warming in the past 40 years might not seem like a lot, it makes a big difference in the moisture levels of plants, said Daniel Swain,…
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East Bay Times
While 3 degrees of warming in the past 40 years might not seem like a lot, it makes a big difference in the moisture levels of plants, said Daniel Swain,…
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The Weather Network
Glen MacDonald, a UCLA distinguished professor of geography and of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA Geography Department points out in one of his current research publications, that the…
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“UCLA is excited to work with LADWP as a research partner to answer some of the city’s most critical water and energy sustainability questions,” added Mark Gold, the university’s associate…
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BBC
Asha de Vos was named in the BBC 100 Women: 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2018. 23) Asha de Vos, 39 – Marine biologist, Sri Lanka.…
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Vogue
“The main pollutant that comes from the fire is called particular matter, or PM. The most health-relevant particles are in sizes smaller than 2.5 microns—they’re pretty tiny particles,” says Yifang…
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National Geographic
That vegetation-drying effect compounds with every degree of warming, explains Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, meaning that plants lose their water more efficiently…
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“If you look at the 20 biggest fires in the state, 15 of those have happened since 2000,” UCLA geography professor Glen MacDonald told Reuters. “There are now bigger fires,…
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Inside Climate News
In a Q&A, California climate scientist Daniel Swain breaks down the influences on the state’s devastating blazes and what the future could bring.
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Democracy Now!
About the fire, you know, in some ways, this is a typical late fall, early winter fire event, with very, very high Santa Ana wind speeds, ignition at a time…
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USA Today
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said that “if Northern California had received anywhere near the typical amount of autumn precipitation this year (4-5 inches of rain near the Camp Fire point…
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Wired
“Some folks will say, well, a few degrees of temperature increase, fires are burning at 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, how can that possibly make a difference?” says UCLA climate scientist Daniel…
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UCLA Newsroom
“UCLA is excited to work with LADWP as a research partner to answer some of the city’s most critical water and energy sustainability questions,” said Mark Gold, the university’s associate…
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The Washington Post
Climate change has “shortened the rainy season at both ends” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles, in an email.
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WBUR
Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Glen MacDonald, a professor and climate scientist at UCLA who’s studied climate change and the causes and impacts of wildfires. MacDonald and his…
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In all likelihood, it’s a scenario that climate change helped to create, according to Daniel Swain, a researcher at University of California-Los Angeles’ Center for Climate Science. In a detailed…
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NBC News
“It’s not so much things are worse because it has warmed a couple degrees because of climate change,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and the National Center…
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