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University helps LA meet its Grand Challenge
“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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Pritzker finalist, Asha de Vos, on BBC’s 100 Women 2018
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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For Those Grappling With California Wildfires, Dangerous Air Quality Is a New Risk
“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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See how a warmer world primed California for large fires
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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The wildfires are the latest example of the need to address climate change
“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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Drier Autumns Are Fueling Deadly California Wildfires
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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Climate Scientist Who Fled CA Wildfire: We’re Going to Keep Paying Price If We Ignore Climate Change
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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How do wildfires start? All it takes is a spark
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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Take A Good Look America, This Is What The Reckoning Looks Like
“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 and LADWP to fund water and energy research benefiting customers
“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 weather and climate behind the California infernos that wrecked Paradise and torched Malibu
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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Climate Change Is Fueling California’s Wildfires | Glen MacDonald
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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Climate change helped make California a tinder box for its record-setting wildfires
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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There’s no more typical California wildfire season. It may be year-round, experts warn.
“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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Paradise Burns As Californian Wildfire Rapidly Grows Into An 18,000-Acre Beast
Climatologist Daniel Swain, using satellite imagery, has shown that it’s effortlessly burning through the town of Paradise, where thousands of buildings have been destroyed. He estimates that it’s burning around…
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‘Camp Fire’ in California still growing, kills 5 people
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the National Center for Atmospheric Research estimated the fire is growing at 80 acres per…
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My Journey to Create the Future of Plastic Recycling
Plastic pollution is a global crisis that results in wildlife entrapment, water and food contamination, and human health problems. Globally, only 9% of plastics produced are recycled; the rest is…
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A local hero for every coastline
What if the solution to our greatest ocean challenge was trapped in the mind of a person from the developing world? Why wouldn’t it be? After all 70% of our…
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California’s fourth climate change assessment report | KPCC-FM
“The state is a really diverse place, climatically and in terms of populations and how they use resources. So the adaptation challenge really is at the local level,” said UCLA’s…
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Civil and environmental engineering professor receives major international honor
Shaily Mahendra, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Samueli Fellow, has received a 2018 Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman award from the Government of India Non-Resident Indian…
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Editing nature: Scientists call for careful oversight of environmental gene editing
Emma Marris is an environmental writer and an Institute Fellow at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Here, Marris writes about newly developed gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR might…
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More Frequent And More Frightening Storms On The Horizon
Hawaii “is close enough to that margin that the warm years tip you over the edge,” says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “An extra…
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Pritzker Finalist Asha de Vos highlighted in TED Fellows Salon ‘Women In Innovation’
Asha de Vos spoke at the “Women in Innovation” TED Salon in Bengaluru, India. At the end of the evening, the crowd of over 200, which included entrepreneurs, Marriott Rewards…
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Evidence floods in for support of stormwater collection and usage under Measure W
Angelenos will vote Tuesday on Measure W, a parcel tax of 2.5 cents per square foot of impermeable space on private property. If approved, the measure would generate an estimated…
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CAT scans of sabertooth cats’ skulls unearth evolution of predatory behavior
Understanding the evolutionary advantages of certain bone structures allows scientists to see why some species are still around and why some are extinct, said Blaire Van Valkenburgh, professor of ecology…
