IoES in the News
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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…
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Pangolin Trafficking Project researchers voice concerns about pangolin awareness
Researchers in the UCLA Congo Basin Institute and Center for Tropical Research are using genomic tools to track down the global trafficking routes of pangolins and their scales.
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Biology’s role in horror music- NPR
“Through a serendipitous experience I had, I was holding a baby marmot and suddenly it screamed, and I had this emotional response. And I wondered why I was having an…
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California’s Dry October Could Be A Sign Of More Concentrated Rainy Seasons
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said it’s not unusual for rain to be scarce in October, but that dry conditions – like the ones forecast over the next few weeks…
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California Has a Posse in Tug-of-War With Trump Over Electric Cars- Mary Nichols & Ann Carlson
“I think our two states, California and Minnesota, will be able to do a lot together,” said Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board. “Contrary to what you might…
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Can vultures help us avoid food poisoning?
Scientists have a number of hypotheses about how these scavengers avoid sickness with this diet. Researchers led by Daniel T. Blumstein, PhD, professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of…
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With Congress and Trump on sidelines, climate change battle moves to courts
“They are trying to find that right and to ground it in the Constitution, and the Supreme Court has never held that there is any kind of right to environmental…
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Climate Change Could Be Contributing to Male Infertility, Scientists Warn
In a recent study, published in the journal Demography, Barreca and his team analyzed birth records in the U.S. from 1931 to 2010 along with weather data. They found that…
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Supreme Court Orders Pause in Landmark Climate Change Case Led By Youth
The fact that the Supreme Court has stepped in to stop the lawsuit, even if temporarily, is “certainly a signal that the court is uncomfortable with the underlying legal theory…
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Pritzker nominee, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez nominated for the MTV EMA Generation Change Award
For the first time ever, the MTV EMA is recognizing the inspiring, young changemakers of the world with the MTV EMA Generation Change award. The five changemakers nominated for the…
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Asha de Vos, Pritzker finalist, in The Guardian
“Tourism is a major income generator for the country. Unfortunately, much of our tourism is focused on numbers of tourists [rather than] the investment they make in the country,” says…
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The Supreme Court stepped in to stall a climate lawsuit. That’s really weird.
Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California Los Angeles, said that the Supreme Court stepping in on a case like this strongly suggests there’s something…
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Pritzker nominee, Peter Hammarstedt, in a new vegan documentary
A new vegan documentary will be available to watch online – including on Plant Based News‘ YouTube channel and Facebook page – from November 11. The film, Let Us Be…
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Animal Collective’s “Tangerine Reef”: Myth, Mystery and Subtle Environmentalism
That environment of the unknown — and protecting it — was the inspiration behind the band Animal Collective’s latest album and video, Tangerine Reef. Created to coincide with the International…
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Wallet Hub- 2018’s Most and Least Energy Efficient States
UCLA’s Deepak Rajagopal answers: What is the biggest mistake consumers make when trying to make their homes more energy efficient?
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Paint makers have to pay for lead cleanup
It’s been debated for years, but the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that paint companies need to clean up the mess from its lead paints.
