IoES in the News
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California Today: Why This Year’s Low Snowpack Doesn’t Indicate a Drought
“We are always looking for the saving grace in California… Is this a miracle March? Is this an awesome April? Is this a miraculous turn around? It’s amazing how often…
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Here’s what that last storm did for California’s water supply
“As of right now it’s not yet a March miracle… We doubled it, but that’s still not nearly enough. We’d need to get multiple more storms like this to get…
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Climate science degree will extend UCLA’s commitment to environmental research and teaching
The UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) will have a new Bachelor’s degree in climate science beginning Spring 2018. UCLA Newsroom interviewed AOS/IoES researchers and faculty members Jochen…
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Long Term Exposure to Green Spaces Affects Children’s Cognitive Development
“As we get more and more of this evidence, it’s the duty of policy makers and urban planners to start looking at nature as a very positive solution to many…
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UCLA report highlights ‘disturbing, sobering’ inequalities in South Los Angeles
“This report is a sobering snapshot of the inequalities that have persisted in South Los Angeles 50 years since the 1968 report,” stated Paul Ong, director of the Center for Neighborhood…
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La nueva vida del río de Los Ángeles y los miedos al desplazamiento de sus vecinos
“Hay planes para revitalizarlo y reanimar su relación con las comunidades circundantes en las 51 millas que recorre al pasar por la ciudad. Y con esos planes llegan los temores…
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Can the L.A. River Avoid ‘Green Gentrification’?
“There are plans to revitalize the river and its relationship to surrounding communities all along its 51-mile course through the city. And with those plans come fears of green gentrification…”…
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Green Initiatives — By Themselves — Won’t Boost Productivity
UCLA Anderson featured a study featured in Business & Society and co-authored by IoES faculty member Magali Delmas that found green practices are linked to higher productivity only if combined…
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UCLA study presents LA with a path to independence from imported water
UCLA Newsroom discussed a study by UCLA researchers that found capturing local stormwater, increasing the use of recycled water, cleaning up groundwater, and stepping up conservation measures could allow LA…
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UCLA study reveals Southern California salt marshes in state of decline
“We still have a few decades before marshes begin to disappear quickly… the most important thing would be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to help reduce the amount of warming…
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Rain, snow and hail pound Northern California at end of bone-dry February
“It’ll be a nice white snowpack by later in the week… [but] this week alone isn’t going to cut it,” according to Daniel Swain, IoES climate scientist, who spoke with…
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UCLA institute partners with TV station for environmental media project
The UCLA Daily Bruin featured an article about UCLA’s Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies collaborating with television station KCET to combine humanities and science, creating online multimedia pieces that highlight…
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West Coast Wetlands Could Nearly Disappear in 100 Years
Scientific American featured an article co-authored by IoES faculty members Glen MacDonald and Richard Ambrose that found Pacific salt marshes in California and Oregon could be underwater by 2110.
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Beach Culture verses Tech Money: Fight!
Wired featured a quote from Jon Christensen, IoES faculty member and co-author of a report about beach access in California about property rights by the ocean; “…the rule of thumb is,…
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With sea level rise, a major California ecosystem faces extinction if we don’t act
“After years of intensive surveying and modeling of topography, vegetation and sedimentology of marshes from the Tijuana Estuary in California to the Port Susan Bay Estuary in northern Washington, my…
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California and Oregon Salt Marshes Could Disappear By Turn of Century, Study Says
The Weather Channel discussed an article written by researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and UCLA (including IoES faculty members Glen MacDonald and Richard Ambrose) that found tidal wetlands in…
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Salt marshes will vanish in less than a century if seas keep rising and California keeps building, study finds
The LA Times spoke with UCLA professor of geography, Glen MacDonald, and professor of environmental health, Richard Ambrose, about a study they co-authored that found salt marshes in CA and…
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Wetlands in California and Oregon Could Disappear with Sea Level Rise
Newsweek featured a study co-authored by faculty members Glen MacDonald and Richard Ambrose that studied topography, tides, vegetation, underlying sediments, and water level data from Tijuana, Mexico, to Port Susan, Washington and…
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California’s coastal marshes could be washed out to sea by 2110
89.3 KPCC spoke with faculty member Glen MacDonald about a research he co-authored that indicated marshes along the California Coast may disappear if we continue emitting greenhouse gases at our…
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Diet has more impact on climate change than transportation. Here’s how to fix that.
In their recent article, Big Think discussed the UC/Vox Climate Lab collaboration video, “The diet that helps fight climate change.”
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February has been bone dry. Has drought returned to California?
“We have been in an extended period of unusually warm and dry conditions. One might call that a drought,” stated IoES climate scientist Daniel Swain to the Fresno Bee.
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Flu Weather: It’s Not the Cold, It’s the Humidity
Weather Underground included a recent study co-authored by IoES faculty member Alan Barreca that discussed how low humidity, which may become more prominent in some regions due to climate change,…
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Green Science’s White People Problem
Professor Aradhna Tripati shared her experience with systemic racism and how she addresses lack of diversity in environmental science through the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science and postdoctoral scholar…
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Activists Worldwide Press Environmental Demands
“There’s a new concept that the (Chinese) state is calling ecological civilization and it’s been all over the official propaganda and the state leadership messaging.” UCLA Law professor and IoES…
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Ventura County is at ‘epicenter’ of California’s drought, expert says
The Ventura County Star consulted with IoES climate scientist Daniel Swain; “As a lot of people in Ventura and Santa Barbara County are acutely aware, the drought arguably never really…