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What the wildfires tell us about the shortcomings of California’s electrical grid
Sean Brenner
Q&A with UCLA energy systems expert Eric Fournier
IoES Magazine
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2020 Pritzker finalists: Clara Pratte, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leah Penniman
David Colgan
The finalists represent a vast range of environmental issues and approaches. All of them are working to address past and ongoing injustices.
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A warming California sets the stage for future floods
Sonia Aronson
UCLA study finds that continued climate change will deliver a dangerous one-two punch for state’s water managers
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Announcing the Candidates for the 2020 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
Sonia Aronson
Candidates for the 4th annual Pritzker Award are artists, leaders and inventors under the age of 40 fighting for a more sustainable future. They include a college dropout who invented…
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Air conditioning: Environmental loss, human win
Paul Stainier
With a warming climate, a key win-lose solution is air conditioning. In hotter conditions, workplace productivity suffers, students learn less, and mortality rates are higher. Fortunately, we have a way…
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Risk of massive wildfires continues to grow in California
Sonia Aronson
Doubling of extreme fire weather days highlights the need to reduce emissions and take other preventive measures
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As climate change messes with temperature and precipitation, California newts suffer
David Colgan
Study shows how drought affects native amphibians, harbingers of what’s to come
Voices
Geoengineering, a futuristic idea that needs more imagination — a Q&A with author Holly Buck
Colin O'Brien-Lux
Buck talks about her new book at UCLA School of Law on Feb. 18 Whether building bridges to connect people, inventing drugs to save lives or splitting atoms to power…
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Many pregnancies are shorter as climate change causes more 90-degree days
Kaitlyn DeShon
The trend could cause health risks for newborns
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Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044
Katharine Davis Reich
UCLA study narrows the predicted timeframe for one worrying result of climate change
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Activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim wins Pritzker Award for young environmental innovators
David Colgan
Native of Chad receives $100,000 for work uniting cultures around a shrinking water resource that serves four African nations
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L.A. County taps UCLA to help create first-ever sustainability plan
OurCounty initiative aims for fossil-free future, addresses environmental injustices
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Bike expedition raises awareness of climate change in California
Katharine Davis Reich
The California Climate Expedition is a 550-mile bike tour from Oakland to Los Angeles
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UCLA students help Pacific island economies grow sustainably
Sonia Aronson
UCLA graduate students help developing islands capitalize on ocean resources.
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California ‘browning’ more in the south during droughts
David Colgan
Vegetation in the southern part of the state is being hit harder due to climate change, UCLA-led study finds
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Making climate change predictions more precise
David Colgan
UCLA’s Alex Hall and others propose new framework for comparing climate models
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Wildfire experts lay out causes and solutions for California’s worsening blazes
David Colgan
Academic and government experts offered insight at an event co-produced by The Nature Conservancy and UCLA
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Cool for You: Q&A with Marianna Linz, author of climate change book for kids
Nicki Aviel
Linz is a climate scientist with UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a fellow with the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science. She’s also author of Cool for You, a…
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White Mountain Research Center offers a range of scientific possibilities (Video)
Sonia Aronson
With 5,000 year-old pine trees, 10,000 feet of elevation and an abundance of animal and insect species, the four field stations of the White Mountain Research Center are prime territory…
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One of two buildings at UCLA research station burned in Woolsey fire
Alison Hewitt
Main building of La Kretz Center Field Station reduced to ash but second structure will remain a ‘foothold’ until rebuilding begins
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Corporate leaders break down the challenges of supply chain sustainability
Nicki Aviel
A Corporate Partners Program event