IoES in the News
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Huffington Post: Arctic oil, environmental legacy are now in crosshairs
Cara Horowitz, director of UCLA’s Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, said it’s pretty clear Trump sees Obama’s withdrawal from the Arctic as a mistake…. “It takes a…
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Los Angeles Times: Getting to the beach often comes down to money
“This new research shows that we are at a tipping point where deciding to visit the coast is a close call for most Californians, given the cost,” said Jon Christensen,…
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KPCC-FM: L.A. needs to do a better job of catching storm water
“We have got to get to the point that we have a system that is equally as effective at infiltrating all of that storm water, which could be a precious…
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Los Angeles Times: L.A. went from high and dry to wet and wild
“We have these very strong west-to-east winds — we call them zonal winds — at the jet stream level in the atmosphere that has sort of propelled this prolonged series…
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KCRW-FM: California goes from drought to drenched
“We have swung the pendulum from very dry to now very wet. Highways have been shut down due to mudslides and water on the roadways and avalanches in the higher…
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Los Angeles Times: California has the snow. It just needs to keep it frozen
And as much as 10 to 20 feet of snow has fallen at the highest mountain peaks during the most recent storm systems that were much colder than earlier bouts…
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TIME: Sushi in L.A. is mislabeled nearly half of the time, study says
Some of the mislabeling may be accidental but much of it was likely done intentionally to save money by providing customers with a cheaper type of fish than they thought they were buying, says study author and UCLA Professor Paul Barber. (Also: LAist, The Huffington Post)
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KABC-AM: Mislabeling of fish in L.A.’s sushi restaurants
“It really depends on what you order,” said UCLA’s Paul Barber. “With certain things like salmon and tuna, there’s a very high likelihood that when you order that, it is…
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U.S. News & World Report: The short-, long-term effects of China’s smog
Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California Los Angeles, tracks about a dozen UCLA students who study in Beijing for 10 weeks each summer.…
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Center for Tropical Research January 2008 Newsletter
Feature Article Mpala Research Centre: A Unique Resource for Field Research in East Africa by Maraget Kinnaird, Ph.D., Director, Mpala Research Centre, Kenya Field Report Accousit Communication Systems of “Ultrasonic”…
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Study designed in La Kretz Center workshop included in Conservation Biology’s top papers list
UCLA research on the role of behavioral ecology in improving wildlife conservation and management was cited as one of the most popular papers in a top science journal. “A systematic survey of…
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LA Weekly: “Atmospheric River” of rain heads for California
The front “will take the form a moisture-laden and slow-moving atmospheric river,” according to UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain’s California Weather Blog. There could be as many as two feet…
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Wired: California’s huge storm could cause disastrous melting in the mountains
Flooding and snowmelt are more likely when intense weather systems come in quick succession. “It is clear we will have both of these issues this weekend, with a very warm…
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National Geographic: A toilet snake makes international news
Brad Shaffer, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote in an email that he’s “pretty sure it is an oriental rat snake,”…
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New book co-authored by Brad Shaffer covers conservation risks faced by sensitive California species
One of the most important hotspots of biodiversity in the United States, California is home to many native amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth. Climate change impacts, human development,…
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UCLA and other higher education leaders pen open letter on climate action to incoming Administration and Congress
UCLA, along with presidents and chancellors from other colleges and universities, including 35 states in the U.S., have joined together to urge president-elect Trump and the incoming congressional representatives to accelerate…
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California’s past and future coastal habitat
As conservationists brace for changes in habitat from a rise in sea level, it bears taking into account lessons from the past. When it comes to California, topography played a major…
