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Daniel Swain quoted in the Washington Post—Melt from historic California snow may be less damaging than feared
“We’ve gotten lucky so far,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, in an online briefing Monday. “We have had some significant heat waves, but they haven’t been super…
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Marilyn Raphael elected as member of American Philosophical Society
Marilyn Raphael elected as member of American Philosophical Society
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Daniel Swain quoted in the Los Angeles Times—Striking satellite photos show the dramatic scale of California’s 2023 snowpack
“This melt really is still just getting started,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA, told The Times. “I know that’s hard to believe, but we’re getting into May, and the peak…
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Gregory Pierce quoted in The Palm Springs Desert Sun—Water agencies lift some restrictions following wet winter: What’s changed, what hasn’t
Gregory Pierce, co-director of UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation and director of the center’s Human Right to Water Solutions Lab, describes the situation as “functionally we are in a long-term…
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Olivia Sanderfoot and Madeleine Siegel in LA Times: Opinion: One simple rule could save the birds that migrate over L.A.
Los Angeles leaders can take action to make our city safer for birds. One key step is to require the use of bird-safe glass, which is designed to obscure windows’…
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California snowpack: Satellite imagery shows dramatic ‘whiplash’ – San Francisco Chronicle
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses California snowpack and climate change.
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Travis Longcore quoted in the Washington Post Opinion by Dana Milbank on light pollution
“The dark places are a refuge,” says Travis Longcore, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. But now, “you have light pollution and skyglow that is as…
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Jasper Kok quoted in USA Today—7 died in an Illinois dust storm pileup — will climate change bring more such tragedies?
Jasper Kok
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‘The Big Melt’: California braces for flooding as heat wave takes aim at state
“The ‘Big Melt’ is now officially arriving. Flows on many rivers draining the central and southern Sierra will double or triple (with locally greater increases) as temperatures rise. Some rivers…
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Daniel Swain quoted in the New York Times—California Braces for Trouble as Record Winter Snow Starts Melting
Daniel Swain
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Anne Rimoin on Independent News—Nigeria Infectious Disease Society’s Boss Emerges Among 2023 Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People
Following its tradition where a renowned person writes the profile of individuals on the list, Anne Rimoin, a professor of epidemiology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) wrote Ogoina’s…
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Deepaak Rajagopol in Daily Bruin: Inside the green campus fee that collects hundreds of thousands more than it spends
“I am not saying music festivals and fashion events should not be funded, but those would not be the first things that come to mind for the Green Fund,” said…
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Yongkang Xue and David Neelin on Phys.org—Tibetan Plateau soil temperatures are found to affect climate regionally, globally
To reach their findings, researchers combined satellite- and ground-based temperature and precipitation observations with global climate models. The models simulate climate outcomes based on data measurements, with and without the…
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David Neelin and Yongkang Xue in the Mirage News—Soil Temperatures on Tibetan Plateau Impact Global Climate
Over the past 20 years, UCLA professor Yongkang Xue has been learning how land temperature and moisture influences climate patterns. His latest paper, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society…
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Daniel Swain in NRDC—California’s Climate Whiplash
“It’s convenient to have this natural time-released water storage in the form of snowpack, and we’ve designed a lot of our Western water systems to accommodate that,” says climate scientist Dr.…
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Daniel Swain in Nature News—Catastrophic Flash Droughts Brought by Climate Change Are Catching Farmers Off Guard
According to a new study, climate change is speeding up and intensifying droughts, particularly the fast-developing heat-driven type that catches farmers off guard. It’s the increasing thirstiness of the atmosphere,…
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Daniel Swain in CNN—Thousands of acres are underwater in California, and the flood could triple in size this summer
“The ground is literally sunk in some places by 10 or 15 feet over the past decade,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los…
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Daniel Swain in Spectrum News 1—As Earth warms, more ‘flash droughts’ suck soil, plants dry
What happens is the air gets so hot and so dry that it sucks water right out of plants and soil. “It’s the increasing thirstiness of the atmosphere,” said UCLA…
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Thomas Gillespie in Daily Bruin—UCLA-led study discusses drought impacts on urban vegetation in coastal greater LA
The study serves as evidence for the public to help understand how climate warming has been inordinately affecting LA’s communities of color and what changes may be necessary to alleviate…
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Glen MacDonald in The Island Online—America-Sri Lanka photo exhibition
The Exhibition under the theme of ‘Sri Lanka in Focus’ is designed to promote tourism in Sri Lanka. As such, it will depict the scenic beauty of the country as…
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Alex Hall in UCLA Newsroom—How does your garden grow?
Professor Alex Hall’s work with native plants is in full bloom, with a weekend tour and podcast
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Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett for Startup Basecamp — The Climate Tech Startups to Watch This Month: April Week 1
Startup Basecamp climate tech startup series highlights Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett’s startup LINUS as an incredible startups that is “leading the fight against the climate crisis.”
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Daniel Swain in Porterville Recorder—Runoff forecast: Success Lake could receive total of 570,000 acre feet
While state officials stopped short of predicting specific flooding locations, the San Joaquin Valley remains a concern with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain telling the Los Angeles Times some parts…
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Daniel Swain in US Times Post—California endured the fifth-coldest March since 1895, data show
Daniel Swain, climate scientist at UCLA, was posted on Twitter on Monday that “some regions of Northern California have just experienced their coldest March on record.”