IoES in the News
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Siberian bogs may play a crucial role in greenhouse gas
Total rainfall might not change much averaged across these sharp shifts between very dry and very wet years, but “it doesn’t just wash out in the end,” said Daniel Swain to MIT Technology Review.
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Adaptation to Global Water Shortages
The latest KCET Earth Focus episode features Jon Christensen (IoES adjunct assistant professor, UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies co-founder) and Yoram Cohen (IoES faculty member, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering professor) of UCLA.
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Willow flycatchers, already an endangered species, also imperiled by climate change
Phys.org featured an article about the willow flycather’s serious environmental challenges on their website.
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Turning Fog Into Water Transforms Women’s Lives in Morocco
“The climates in Southwest Morocco and California are somewhat similar, and there is a possibility to use the fog making technology in California but on a smaller scale,” Daniel Swain,…
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Stalls, stops and breakdowns: Problems plague push for electric buses
Rajit Gadh, director of the Smart Grid Energy Research Center at UCLA and faculty member at IoES explained electric vehicle battery power loss and power drains to the Los Angeles Times.
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American Elements Funds UCLA Center For Diverse Leadership In Science
PR Newswire reported that American Elements, a manufacturer and supplier of engineered and advanced material products with distribution and manufacturing in Europe, Asia, South America and China, has provided funding for the UCLA IoES Center for Diverse Leadership in…
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California, battered by global warming’s weather whiplash, is fighting to stop it
The Guardian referenced a study by IoES climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that found wet and dry extremes will only worsen in California as temperatures continue to…
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Trump Plans to Fight California Car Rules With Twice-Failed Strategy
“It strikes me as an extraordinarily weak legal argument,” Ann Carlson, UCLA Law professor told Bloomberg about the White House asserting a 1975 law prohibiting states from setting their own…
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Auto executives got more than they bargained for in lobbying Trump to ease fuel standard
Ann Carlson, UCLA professor of law told the Chicago Tribune that car companies, “opened up a Pandora’s box when they asked for these fuel economy standards to be loosened around…
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EPA’s move to fast-track Orange County groundwater cleanup questioned
Sean Hecht, UCLA Law professor, IoES faculty member, and Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment co-director spoke with Los Angeles Times about the expedited selection of an Orange County,…
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Pruitt NAAQS memo part of broad strategy to weaken air regs, lawyers say
Sean Hecht, UCLA Professor of Law, IoES faculty member, and Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment Co-Director spoke with Utility Dive about EPA Administrator Scott Pruit’s membo outlining…
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Aradhna Tripati named Geological Society of America fellow
Professor Aradhna Tripati was named a Geological Society of America (GSA) fellow at the organization’s spring meeting in April. Founded in 1888, GSA serves geoscientists in academia, government and industry. Fellowships…
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Dismal Western Snowpack Is a Climate “Warning Sign”, Neil Berg
“There’s been a growing body of evidence that there have been some long-term declines in Sierra snowpack,” said UCLA climate scientist Neil Berg, one of the report’s authors, noting that…
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Congratulations to Carl Maida, one of two 2017-2018 IoES Pritzker Environment and Sustainability Education Fellows
Carl Maida, instructor for Environment 185A/B/C (Education for Sustainable Living Program Action Research) has been selected as one of two IoES Pritzker Environment and Sustainability Education Fellow for the 2017-2018 academic year. …
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Congratulations to Colleen Callahan, one of two 2017-2018 IoES Pritzker Environment and Sustainability Education Fellows
Colleen Callahan, Director of the UCLA IoES Leaders in Sustainability program and instructor for Environment 277 has been selected as one of two IoES Pritzker Environment and Sustainability Education Fellows for the 2017-2018…
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Student group raises awareness for environmental racism with forum
IoES Center for Diverse Leadership in Science director, Aradhna Tripati spoke at the Environmentalists of Color Collective at UCLA’s Climate Justice Forum on May 8, 2018. The Daily Bruin highlighted Professor Tripati’s…
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Trump Eyes Twice-Failed Legal Strategy to Fight California Regulations
“It strikes me as an extraordinarily weak legal argument,” said Ann Carlson, a UCLA law professor and IoES faculty member to Transport Topics about a new federal proposal that seeks…
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Big utilities are desperately trying to stick customers for the bills from California wildfires
“This is emblematic of a whole host of problems we’re going to see from climate change, where in the aggregate everybody loses and the question is how you allocate those…
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Precipitation whiplash and climate change threaten California’s freshwater
The Washington Post reports on big changes coming to Sierra snowpack, highlighting recent research by Alex Hall, Daniel Swain, and colleagues at the IoES Center for Climate Science.
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Climate Change Could Leave Californians With ‘Weather Whiplash’
CBS San Francisco highlighted findings by climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that projected increased climate “whiplash” in California with extreme wet to dry weather seasons.
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California’s future: More big droughts and massive floods, new study finds
The Santa Cruz Sentinel discussed the implications of the findings in climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin’s new paper that projected an increased frequency of extreme wet…
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UCLA Study Forecasts a Severe Climate Future for California
The Sierra Sun Times shared an article about UCLA climate research that predicts dramatic shifts between extreme dry and extreme wet weather by end of 21st century.
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Climate change will make California’s drought-flood cycle more volatile, study finds
The Garden Island featured an article highlighting the projections of increased extreme wet and dry weather seasons in California made by climate scientists Daniel Swain, David Neelin, and Alex Hall…
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California is in store for even more volatile weather, study finds
The Star Tribune featured an article about increased extreme wet and dry weather in California, a finding recently published in co-authors Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin’s new study…
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Study: Climate Change Could Leave Californians With ‘Weather Whiplash’
CBS Sacramento featured an article about the research of climate scientists Daniel Swain, Alex Hall, and David Neelin that projected increased frequency of extreme wet and dry seasons due to…