IoES in the News
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Daniel Swain for Forbes — 4 Numbers To Watch For As The Climate Crisis Heats Up
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses record-breaking temperatures and heatwaves for Forbes, “One searing statistic: the official recording site in Death Valley has a decent chance of tying (or even)…
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Daniel Swain for USA Today — NWS excessive heat warnings, advisories amid heat wave
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses the melting California snowpack with USA Today, “There is still snow to melt at the highest elevations, and it really is going to start…
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Daniel Swain for New York Times — A Major Heat Wave Arrives in California
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses the oncoming California heatwave, “It has been relatively quiet in California as of late, and that’s about to change.”
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Glen MacDonald for Sierra Sun Times — UCLA: Why Are California’s Wildfires Getting Worse? Experts Explain What We Know
“While contributing factors to the worsening wildfire situation can vary across regions and ecosystems, climate change is an overarching force that affects all areas, said Glen MacDonald, a UCLA distinguished…
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Daniel Swain for Vox — The “new abnormal”: The rise of extreme flooding, briefly explained
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses the factors behind the rise of extreme weather, and how the government could respond to both combat it and alleviate its impact with Vox.
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Daniel Swain for San Francisco Chronicle — Twitter is ‘potentially dying.’ What does that mean for California’s disaster response?
“UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain has garnered tens of thousands of followers by providing real-time science insights into California floods.”
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Daniel Swain for Scientific American — What’s Causing This Record-Breaking Heat?
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses record-breaking heat around the globe for Scientific American, explaining how the brutal heat and humidity has been “breaking daily record high temperatures over and…
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Alex Hall for NCAR & UCAR News — SCIENTISTS NATIONWIDE LAUNCH FIRST PROJECTS ON NEW NCAR SUPERCOMPUTER
“Scientists are applying a technique known as downscaling to create an ensemble of detailed computer simulations showing how climate is likely to change at very fine scales across the western…
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Morgan Tingley for The Week — Warming climate takes a toll on global bird populations
“Morgan Tingley, the study’s senior author and a UCLA associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, expressed concern over the severe decline in bird populations in North America, where nearly…
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Morgan Tingley for the Daily Pioneer — Climate change to result in 12% fall in bird populations
“North America has lost nearly a third of its bird populations since the 1970s,” said Morgan Tingley, a UCLA associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and the study’s senior…
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Daniel Swain for New York Times — How Extreme Weather Could Threaten California’s Dams
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain draws attention to the difficulties California’s dams will face as a result of superstorms and climate change for the New York Times. “All of this…
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Daniel Swain for Yahoo News — How Extreme Weather Could Threaten California’s Dams
“All of this infrastructure,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, “is designed for a climate that no longer exists.”
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Travis Longcore for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — Light pollution is fixable. Can researchers and policymakers work together to dim the lights?
UCLA urban ecologist provides insights on addressing the effects of light pollution on ecosystems and sleep patterns for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Part of the problem, overall,…
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Daniel Swain for NPR — Global heat waves show climate change and El Niño are a bad combo
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses recent increased global temperatures, stating “Most of the world’s population has experienced record-breaking heat in recent days.”
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Robert Eagle for NBC Right Now — Megalodon was a truly vicious killer, but not a cold-blooded one
UCLA Assistant Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Robert Eagle discusses megaladon’s extinction and how studying it can be helpful towards understanding modern ocean ecosystems for NBC Right Now. “Studying…
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Aradhna Tripati for Science Daily — Megalodon was no cold-blooded killer
UCLA professor of Earth, planetary and space sciences Aradhna Tripati discusses new research that supports megaladons were warm-blood creatures. “Having established endothermy in megalodon, the question arises of how frequently…
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Robert Eagle for Earth.com — Megalodon was a truly vicious killer, but not a cold-blooded one
UCLA Assistant Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Robert Eagle discusses megaladon’s extinction and how studying it can be helpful towards understanding modern ocean ecosystems for Earth.com. “Studying the driving…
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Daniel Swain for the New York Times — The Trillion-Gallon Question: What if California’s Dams Fail?
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain draws attention to the difficulties California’s dams will face as a result of superstorms and climate change for NY Times. “All of this infrastructure is…
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V. Kelly Turner for the Physician’s Weekly — California schools start hatching plans as the planet warms
Urban planning associate professor and the director of the Luskin Center V. Kelly Turner quoted for Physician’s Weekly, stATING “Obviously, the California Education Board wasn’t set up to think about…
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Úrsula K. Heise for Peninsula 360 Press — No more magical realism: Latin American Narrative uses Imagination and Fantasy to explain its world
UCLA IoES and English Professor Úrsula K. Heise “points out that, in Latin America, ‘what has attracted attention has been the attention paid to social settings rather than to science and…
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Morgan Tingley and Olivia Sanderfoot for National Geographic — Wildfire smoke affects birds too. Here’s how you can help.
UCLA ecologist Morgan Tingley and postdoctoral fellow Olivia Sanderfoot discuss the effects of smoke exposure on North American birds during breeding season for National Geographic.
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Olivia Sanderfoot for the Popular Science — Clouds of wildfire smoke are toxic to humans and animals alike
UCLA La Kretz Center Postdoctoral Fellow Olivia Sanderfoot discusses the effects of wildfire smoke on animals, as well as her previous review in the journal Environmental Research Letters for Popular…
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Blaire Van Valkenburgh for New York Times — A Bear That Looked Like a Raccoon and Had a Dangerous Appetite
UCLA vertebrate paleontologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh provides insights to the New York Times about a pioneering carnivorous creature, including its geographical origins and dietary preferences.
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Daniel Swain for ABC News — Highest ocean temperatures ever recorded for the month of May, NOAA says
“Four main factors are contributing to such historic warming of global sea surface temperatures: human-induced climate change, a developing El Nino event, effects from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano…
