IoES in the News
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‘We are all in this together’: California, Puerto Rico officials join in climate fight
IoES Center for Climate Science director Alex Hall talks with USA Today about the role of climate change in California wildfires and Atlantic Hurricanes.
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2019 will be the year L.A. starts to wean itself from imported water
UCLA’s Mark Gold in the LA Times. Gold writes about what 2019 will bring for L.A.’s water.
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Catastrophic fires are a reckoning for Californians and their ‘new normal.’ Has the state reached a tipping point?
Jon Christensen is an adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and the Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA. In this LA…
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Dennis P. Lettenmaier Receives 2018 Robert E. Horton Medal
Dennis Lettenmaier is a Distinguished Professor of Geography at UCLA who studies hydrological modeling and prediction, hydrologic remote sensing, hydrology-climate interactions, and water management. Earth and Space Science News reported that…
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New management strategies may help Los Angeles avoid future water crises
Stephanie Pincetl is Professor-in-Residence at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA. In this UPI article, she discusses…
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In Case You Missed It
The biggest climate news from this past week Monday December 10, 2018 – Friday December 14, 2018 Business Stella McCartney, Burberry among fashion brands uniting against climate change Investors with…
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Here’s what those Bay Area weather terms you always hear actually mean
Daniel Swian is a climate scientist at UCLA. As a climate scientist, he studies the physics, dynamics, and impacts of the Earth’s changing climate system. In this SF Gate article,…
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BioCellection, co-founder win Pritzker environmental prize
Entrepreneur Miranda Wang and BioCellection, the Menlo Park-based company she co-founded, have been named the winners of the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award for 2018. The prestigious award, which includes…
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A wet start to the winter brings piles of snow to California mountains and high hopes for water supply
Still, researchers are predicting a climate pattern is emerging: one of extreme highs and extreme lows, or “whiplash events,” said Neil Berg, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Center for Climate…
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What they’re reading: 2018 Pritkzer Award candidates book recommendations
At this year’s 2018 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award ceremony, each candidate shared a book that has impacted their lives. Here’s the list, for anyone who wants to think like…
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U.S.-China Friction Threatens to Undercut the Fight Against Climate Change
“It takes the pressure off of greater ambition and faster action,” said Alex Wang, a University of California Los Angeles law professor who follows China’s environmental policy, of the United…
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GreenShorts puts Southern California high school students into the director’s chair
By Nicki Aviel For the third year, UCLA invites SoCal high schoolers to get creative with GreenShorts — an environmental short film contest hosted by the Institute of the Environment…
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How The Iconic 1968 Earthrise Photo Changed Our Relationship To The Planet
Earthrise Media founder and our 2017 Pritzker winner, Dan Hammer, in Huffington Post. Earthrise Media‘s images were used in this article by Bill McKibben to discuss the impact of satellite…
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California’s 2018 Wildfires Have Emitted A Year’s Worth of Power Pollution
“We’ve been lengthening fire season by shortening the precipitation season, and we’re warming throughout,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, explained to National Geographic.…
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CAMP FIRE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, PERHAPS A RECORD SAYS U.S. INTERIOR SEC’Y
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the figure is strikingly high and likely a record for carbon emissions from wildfires in California history.
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Trump climate report can strengthen lawsuits against govt.
Carlson consults pro bono on climate cases for Sher Edling LLP, a California law firm. Sher Edling is involved in at least nine other similar lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.…
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Fire-scarred California just got a new wake-up call: Mud flow risk is high
“The Montecito event was not a particularly strong storm, it just happened to be localized, one (burst of rain) in a bad spot,” Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, warned.…
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California wildfire emissions equal year of power pollution
The 2018 emissions figure for California wildfires is “strikingly high, significant in the context of overall statewide emissions, and likely a record value for single-year direct carbon emissions from wildfires…
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Fire-scarred California just got a new wake-up call: Mud flow risk is high
“The Montecito event was not a particularly strong storm, it just happened to be localized, one (burst of rain) in a bad spot,” Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, warned.…
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José González in Bay Nature
Pritzker nominee and Latino Outdoors founder, José González writes about “The Consequences of Lines on a Map” in Bay Nature.
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Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag
Dan Hammer, 2017 Pritzker award winner, is leading a project to make sense of Earth imagery — to help people “read” images like they read the news. Hammer, of Earthrise Media, worked…
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Peter Kareiva, four other IoES faculty included in list of most influential scholars
In its annual list, Clarivate Analytics names the most highly cited researchers by other scientific research papers in 21 fields across the sciences and social sciences. The 2018 list is…
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Campus Queries: What is the impact of wildfires on wildlife in California?
Glen MacDonald, a distinguished professor in the department of geography and the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, said wildfires are common during winter in California, but have been starting…
