IoES in the News

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But there are a number of things you can do to protect yourself and your family from air pollution, said Yifang Zhu. She’s a professor of environmental health sciences at…

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Blaire Van Valkenburgh, a paleontologist at UCLA, led graduate students to a local resource. The student researchers found a way to map damaged areas on bones and spent months examining…

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“This is a great idea,” said Michael Roberts, executive director of the UCLA Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy and a UC Global Food Initiative subcommittee member. “Most consumers…

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IoES and Department of English Professor Ursula Heise has been awarded this year’s British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) prize for best book in the field of literature and science published…

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“I think the court really got it right,” Cara Horowitz, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Bloomberg BNA. “It took a creative analytical approach to…

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“I think one of the fears about what’s going on in the US with Trump stepping back from climate action is that some people think Chinese leaders may not want…

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Starting this fall, the IoES will offer a new graduate program to help students study and address important environmental challenges that require skills in multiple disciplines. Environment and sustainability problems…

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“If you ask in the most expansive way what federal actions affect fossil fuels production, DOE’s energy support — research and development support for renewable energy — could be construed…

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Daniel Swain, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability: Overall, this piece accurately describes the findings of a new research paper by Mann et al on linkages between rapid…

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“In many ways it’s surprising how adaptable these species have been. Mountain lions, for instance, willingly limit themselves to 25 square miles instead of their staggeringly large range of around…

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“Trump’s rejection of regulatory action on climate change creates a vacuum in global climate leadership that China can now seize,” said Alex L. Wang, a law professor and China environmental…

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UCLA environmental lawyer Cara Horowitz said, “States like California and environmental organizations will take EPA to court and say, “Look, EPA can’t undo this rule just based on a political…

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“To the extent you’re in a political setting where misinformation about climate change is being spread, efforts to cut emissions are being undermined or threatened,” [UCLA’s Ted] Parson told NPR,…

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Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA, said that while it is impossible to predict the outcome of a showdown between…

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“The EPA gets challenged a ton, but they win most of the time,” Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at UCLA. “And one of the reasons they win, even…

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But experts say that without action from the United States, China’s efforts to curb emissions may slow. “It may empower business and political interests within China that still opposed climate…

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by Kyla Wilson I was raised on the sandstone hills above San Elijo Lagoon, just a couple miles south of Batiquitos Lagoon. As a child, these inlets where river runoff…

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Yifang Zhu, professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, says there are steps we can take to protect ourselves and our families from air…

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A recent study performed by the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA sampled from 26 sushi restaurants in Los Angeles from 2012-2015. Led by Demian A, Willette and…

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“Here in L.A. we have a high concentration of oil drilling in communities like Wilmington,” said UCLA Law’s Sean Hecht. “And in those situations, it affects people’s health directly,” because…

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Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at UCLA, told the Atlantic’s Meyer that “I thought that [Scott] Pruitt’s testimony [at his hearing for the top EPA post] was sufficiently…

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Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at UCLA, said negotiations still could resolve disagreements and preserve a single national standard. And if they don’t? “The other possibility is it’s full-out…

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Thanks to a partnership program at UCLA, Magali Delmas and co-author Omar Isaac Asensio were able to access energy data from buildings throughout Los Angeles and use it to evaluate the…

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Alex L. Wang, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies Chinese environmental regulations, said although this case was apparently a first for Beijing, regulators in…

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Most of the great sites have been taken, and so the sites that still exist — they might be small, they might be oddly shaped to represent certain engineering designs…