UCLA Environment

UCLA Environment has been a member of Linktree for 7 years and joined in August 2019. Resources uclaioes has populated their site with include: • Heat is killing more Angelenos. UCLA is turning community health workers into a frontline of defense — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • PhD Graduate Spotlight: Dr. Elijah Catalan Centers Community Needs in His Scientific Research — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Podcasts — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • PhD Graduate Highlight: Dr. Emma Barnosky Looks at the Social and Political Dimensions of Fire Management — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Restoring trees and empowering communities: 10 years of the Ebony Project | UCLA • PhD Candidate Highlight: Tyson Timmer Examines How Sustainability Shapes Corporate Behavior — UCLA IoES • PhD Candidate Spotlight: Rachel Sheinberg and the Future of Equitable Energy — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Should we rank the Santa Anas like hurricanes? | KCRW • The LA Residential Energy Transition (RESET) Tool—your next energy bill reimagined for electrified futures — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Environmental Science Needs the Humanities: IoES Prof. Ursula K. Heise Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Dr. Iroro Tanshi Awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • The Power of Positive Climate Action: Professor Tim Lenton Delivers IoES’s Inaugural Richard P. and Linda S. Turco Lecture — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • In memoriam: Benedict Schwegler, D.Env. ’99, environmental engineer who redefined sustainability in Disney’s global theme parks — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Report puts numbers on massive gap in water costs in the West — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Alex Hall named among the world’s most influential researchers — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • An Indigenous Foodway Reduces Wildfire Damage In A Western Forest - Natural Reserve System • Tony Pritzker’s ‘patient strategy for the planet’ featured in Mongabay — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • From awe to action: How I discovered harmony and found purpose in forests — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • For frogs and family — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Scientists discover how elephant extinction threatens everything from rainforests to musical instruments — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Healing Mother Earth, Healing Ourselves — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • 2025 Pritzker Award finalists: Anthony Waddle, Denica Riadini-Flesch, Seema Lokhandwala — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Meet the 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #10–13 — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Meet the 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #6–9 — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Meet the 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award candidates #1–5 — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Announcing the 2025 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award nominees — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • How watching birds for 10 minutes a week can help climate scientists this summer — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA • Flood deaths are rising in the U.S., fueled by heavier rainfall • UCLA’s class of 2025: A new generation of environmental leaders step forward • Field notes from the finca: UCLA students trace biodiversity through Guatemalan cloud forest and coffee fields • Researchers need public's help understanding long-term health impacts of LA wildfires • Marilyn Raphael elected to National Academy of Sciences • Dockweiler Dune Restoration and Beach Cleanup • www.ioes.ucla.edu • As the Colorado River shrinks, states fail to tap one of their most promising and accessible water sources • The war on science is here. Kim Stanley Robinson says it’s just the beginning • Butterfly populations are plummeting across the United States • NOAA layoffs put American lives and economy at risk, experts warn • Optimism, Optopia and Climate Change Stories • A New Vision for Climate Science and Society • Three billion birds gone: why America’s skies are emptying • Wildfire disaster, recovery, and resilience: what have we learned? • Pacific Palisades fire—UCLA experts warn of extreme wildfire risks in SoCal • UCLA at COP16: Progress in Biodiversity Conservation and Global Challenges • Transforming data into climate action: UCLA’s Stephanie Pincetl honored at L.A. County GIS Day • Nearly half of Colombia’s culturally important plant species lack conservation protections • From Prolonging Wallaby Pregnancies to Disorienting Hatchling Turtles, 11 Ways Artificial Lights Affect Animals • Nina Gualinga wins UCLA’s Pritzker Award for environmental innovation • Q&A with Iroro Tanshi, 2023 Pritzker Genius Award winner • FOR NATURE • My journey in conserving Lake Chad: A story of Ecofeminism approach and Innovative Technology • A Vow To The Forest • UCLA earns top 10 spot among environmental science universities in Niche.com rankings • Daniel Swain for NatGeo—Drought, flooding, drought again: Is ‘weather whiplash’ our new normal? • New research unveils the hidden complexity of antelope seed dispersal in Congo Basin tropical forests • 2024 Pritzker Award finalists: Nina Gualinga, Adenike Oladosu, Callie Veelenturf • Environmental Science Juniors - Fall Retreat Day - Tuesday, September 24, 2024 • Birds shifting more in time than space as they adjust to global warming • Meet the 2024 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #11-14 • Meet the 2024 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #6-10 • Meet the 2024 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #1-5 • UCLA to lead project to help L.A. County cope with extreme heat • Meet the 2024 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award nominees • Humans are stealing food from lions – and it could be a threat to Africa’s big cats • Chester’s Way: A squirrel’s tale of community and conservation • UCLA IoES Achieves Re-Certification as a Green Business • UCLA Counterforce Lab’s Yogan Müller publishes book on LA Aqueduct following COP21 • Wildfire smoke harms California birds: UCLA study reveals health decline • 'Unprecedented' Beryl Signals Climate Change's Impact • Over 140 UCLA IoES students turn their tassels • Students enhance conservation efforts and uplift local perspectives in Cameroon • UCLA seniors study L.A. owl habitats with Friends of Griffith Park • UCLA storytellers use Grand Theft Auto as basis for series of original films imagining L.A. in 2050 • UCLA seniors model flood vulnerability in Tobago • Bruin Day 2024 • Ary Amaya is 27 acres into an Indigenous-led reforestation of L.A. She’s far from done • Earth Month • Lorena De la Puente Burlando Awarded 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship • eDNA reveals unique fish communities in Southern California seagrass meadows • Environmental Art Submission Form • Sea urchins help tropical coral reefs recover, study finds • Alumni Spotlight — From UCLA to NASA, Danielle Sonobe ’23 • UCLA Summer Courses • The Diversity Project • To Labor for the Hive • How to dim the consequences of global light pollution • California storms carry flood risk this week: Live Q&As with Daniel Swain • Travis Longcore for LAist — Getting A Mountain Lion To Safely Cross A Road Isn’t Easy. What It Means For Planned $90M Land Bridge • Environmental Science B.S. Orientation • The Lab at 10,000 Feet • As the climate warms, birds in the East Africa mountains are getting bigger • El Niño Explained by UCLA Climate Scientist | A Rainy Day Discussion • Breakthrough reveals poaching hotspots, trade routes of most trafficked endangered mammal • Daniel Swain and Alex Hall for NY Times — What an El Niño Winter Could Mean for California • 3 UCLA faculty contribute to Fifth National Climate Assessment • LA100: Equitable solutions for LA to achieve 100% clean energy by 2035 • Environmental Science & Engineering doctoral program turns 50 • What’s behind the toxic levels of mercury in tropical birds? Gold mining, study shows • Experts illuminate how light pollution impacts mountain lions • Iroro Tanshi wins UCLA’s Pritzker Award for environmental innovators • From Betrayal to Revolution: Challenging the Global Leadership Void • Fireproofing Nigeria’s Last Primary Forest and Solving Planetary Crises • My Journey from Conflict to Conservation • Controlled burns help prevent wildfires. Climate change is limiting their use • Tanner Waters selected for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program • 2023 Pritzker Award finalists: Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, Hana Raza, Iroro Tanshi • Meet the 2023 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #15-18 • Meet the 2023 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #11-14 • Meet the 2023 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #6-10 • Meet the 2023 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #1-5 • Why are California’s wildfires getting worse? Experts explain what we know • A Smallholder’s Voice (video) • Announcing the 2023 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award candidates • Elsa Ordway joins Tom Smith as co-director of the Center for Tropical Research and Congo Basin Institute • What’s living beneath the waves in Southern California? • These UCLA seniors advanced sustainable farming with incarcerated youth in Cameroon • White-bellied pangolins have second-most chromosomes among mammals • Climate change, habitat loss threaten East African bird populations • Rainforest conservation meets cacao production • A wild place to learn: Sage Hill at UCLA • Opinion: One simple rule could save the birds that migrate over L.A. • How does your garden grow? • Q&A: Monica L. Smith on how humans have adapted to natural forces throughout history • A Bruin in the Forecast • Marilyn Raphael brings us the cold facts about Antarctica and climate change • Vegan, Mediterranean and ‘climatarian’ diets have lower carbon footprints than standard U.S. diet • New professor Alesia Montgomery examines environmental justice in urban redevelopment • Increased atmospheric dust is masking greenhouse gases’ warming effect • Spurred by parents’ close call with wildfire, UCLA alum uses AI to predict climate risk • Air for disadvantaged L.A. residents is more polluted, more toxic • Dysmus Kisilu wins UCLA’s Pritzker Award for environmental innovators • The owners of empty spaces by Resson Kantai Duff • Birds getting smaller, ‘wingier’ as planet warms, UCLA-led research finds • Take the Clean Air Pledge - California Clean Air Day • Paper: Kelp Forest Management Intervention • The growing global problem of light pollution and urgent need for public awareness & action • These pesticides may increase cancer risk in children • 2020 Pritzker Award Winner Appointed to President Biden's National Infrastructure Advisory Council • As climate change worsens deadly heat waves, policymakers begin to act • 2022 Pritzker finalists: Resson Kantai Duff, Solar Freeze, Tiana Williams-Claussen • What’s the deal with all the turtles in Los Angeles parks? • Heat waves aren’t going anywhere. Here’s how we can prepare. • Bird behavior influenced by human activity during COVID-19 lockdowns • Climate change makes catastrophic flood twice as likely • Book by Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes — ‘Recipe for Survival: What You Can do to Live a Healthier and More Environmentally Friendly Life" • Meet the 2022 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #16-19 • Meet the 2022 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #11-15 • Meet the 2022 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #6-10 • Meet the 2022 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #1-5 • Announcing the candidates for the 2022 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award • World Rainforest Day Summit • LENS-Labrynth Podcast Episode 3: "How to See Coyotes" • 🐬 Vaquitas: Scientists find last of the species can survive inbreeding - if illegal fishing stops • A “Hunger Catastrophe” in the Making • Lens-Labrynth Episode 2: "Unsustainable" • Cities look to trees to combat heat islands, but growth is slow • LENS-Labyrinth Episode 1: "The Lion and the Rat" • LENS.Cast Ep. 2 "Please Take Off Your Shoes" • Improve Nutritional Health and the Environment in One Bite! • LENS.Cast Ep. 1: "Heirlooms of Conquest: Trees + Justice in Los Angeles" • The Secret to Longevity? This Animal Provides a Hint • UCLA Zero Waste Policy Target: 90% Diversion from Landfill • Think Outside the Landfill! UCLA Sustainability • UCLA's “The Labyrinth Project” podcast explores complexities of the Los Angeles urban ecosystem • Megadrought in southwestern North America is region’s driest in at least 1,200 years • 🎉 Congrats to IoES director Marilyn Raphael, elected president of elected president of the American Association of Geographers! • Using electric vehicles for ride-sharing in New Delhi can boost air quality for millions • Antarctic sea ice level could reach record low in 2022, UCLA climate scientist says • For the 1st time, the U.S. allocates big money for animal road crossings • More days of extreme heat & wildfire = more days of dangerous air pollution • Analysis: Safe drinking water may be out of reach for almost 400,000 Californians • Prof. Stephanie Pincetl on wildfire safety & land development for The Los Angeles Times • Prof. Stephanie Pincetl Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: In Ojai Valley, a glimpse of how to nurture land in a drier, post-hydrocarbon world • In 3 California regions, big cities lag smaller cities in ‘neighborhood biodiversity’ • Study identifies how much artificial light is too much for two coastal species • RSVP: Support Environmental Justice at The Better Watts Initiative Art Exhibition! • Join us for the 2021 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award Ceremony! • Pritzker Genius Award Finalist Chook-Chook Hillman's Personal Narrative • Pritzker Genius Award Finalist Farwiza Farhan's Personal Narrative • Pritzker Genius Award Finalist David Diaz Personal Narrative • Q&A with Clara Pratte, 2020 Pritzker Award winner • Support UCLA IoES grad students • IoES 2021 Gala honoring Jaden Smith and Amariyanna Copeny - tix/more • IoES Gala Auction • UCLA Undergrads: Apply to be an IoES Environmental Communications Ambassador! • Announcing the 2021 Pritzker Finalists: David Diaz, Farwiza Farhan, Chook-Chook Hillman • Meet the Pritzker Environmental Genius Award candidates #14 – 18 • Meet the 2021 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award candidates #10 – 13 • Meet the 2021 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award Candidates #6–9 • Meet the 2021 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award Candidates #1-5 • Announcing candidates for the 2021 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award • Jaden Smith to Be Honored by UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability • Queer geoscientists need more than visibility • Human wastewater is feeding harmful algae blooms off of Southern California’s coast • RSVP — Engineering in Action: Transportation Equity • Migratory songbirds’ travels disrupted by earlier springs • RSVP: Sustainability in the virtual workplace event 4/28 @ 3:30pm PT • RSVP to Impact Week 2021 • Register for the The Nature Conservancy Virtual Earth Day Summit 4/21! • NASA and UCLA use International Space Station to learn how animals disperse seeds in Congo Basin • California Conservation Genomics Project • UCLA’s women leaders discuss their influence in the environmental science field • African agriculture driving declines in sensitive rainforest birds • Study reveals which outdoor lighting minimizes harm to insects • Simulations show how city building configurations affect pedestrians’ air quality • Genetic tool could improve monitoring of marine protected areas • Drought restrictions had side benefit: Lowering risk of mosquito-borne disease • Turtles ‘in horrible shape’ with grim future due to rising sea levels • Evidence mounts that eco-friendly wine tastes better • EVENT 1/29: Covering The Coast: Narrating DDT Pollution and other CA Coastal Stories • Feathers in Flight: The Bird Genoscape Project | National Geographic • Event 1/22/21: Abolitionist and Emancipatory Futures: Anti-Racist Struggles and Climate Justice • Warming and acidification form dual threat to corals • Could feeding your dog bugs save the planet? IoES' Gregory S. Okin weighs in. • Research: Sustainable Practices & Wine Eco-Labels • What they’re reading: 2020 Pritzker Genius Award book recommendations • Activism in pandemic times: Q&A with Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, 2019 Pritzker Award winner • 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner — “I envision simple things. Our islands, above water” • 2020 Pritzker Award Finalist Clara Lee-Pratt — “A Vast Land, and a Vast Future” • EVENT: How to Predict and Manage California's Fire Risk in a Changing Climate • 2020 Pritzker Finalist Leah Penniman: "Free the people! Free the land!" • Wildfires should be considered a top threat to survival of species • California needs policies to protect communities moving to renewable energy • Extreme rainfall projected to get more severe, frequent with warming • The Nature of Fear: Survival Lessons from the Wild • Event — Resiliency: Adapting Sustainability Under Pandemic Conditions • IoES' Monika Shankar Receives Switzer Fellowship • Op-Ed by Prof. Tom Smith: The Congo Basin in an Era of Climate Change • Video: Tackling Prey Naivety Team, Finalist for the 2020 Eureka Prize for Applied Environmental Research • The Southwest Is Facing an ‘Unprecedented’ Migratory Bird Die-Off • KCET and UCLA launch new season of Earth Focus with Link TV and Thompson Reuters • Environmental economist wins award for sustainable management research • 2020 Pritzker finalists: Clara Lee-Pratte, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leah Penniman • Marilyn Raphael takes helm at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability • Risk of massive wildfires continue to grow in California • Tiny endangered shrimp may get big hand from environmental DNA testing • Meet the 2020 Pritzker Award Candidates #16-21 • Meet the 2020 Pritzker Award Candidates #11-15 • 2020 senior practicum adapts to recent global conditions with strong research • #IoES Inspires — "Campfire" by Susan Holcomb + Scientific Input by Dr. Stephanie Pincetl • A warming California sets the stage for future floods • Meet the 2020 Pritzker Award Candidates #6-10 • Meet the 2020 Pritzker Award Candidates #1-5 • Announcing the Candidates for the 2020 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award • Study: How will California's most extreme rain and snow events change in a changing climate? • Discovery opens up new path in study of marine evolution and biodiversity • Why COVID-19 Demands Action on Climate Change — World War Zero Op -Ed by Professor Thomas Smith • Three honored with UCLA Academic Senate awards for diversity, equity & inclusion • Corporate Partners Program Green Papers 3/3: Accelerating the Urban Transition to 100% Renewable Energy • Corporate Partners Program Green Paper 2/3: Facilitating Reentry of Justice-Involved Individuals into the Green Workforce • Corporate Partners Program Green Paper 1/3: Is Solar the “Free Energy Lunch” of a Decarbonized World? • IoES Virtual 2020 Commencement 6/14 @ 1:30pm — Congrats, Graduates! • Tails of a Feather | National Geographic's "Explorer in the Field" • The criminal tragedy we are all party to • RSVP to the 2020 GreenShorts Film Competition • Deforestation surged following end of armed conflict in Colombia • Researchers create framework for evaluating environmental stopgap measures • Study shows how drought affects native amphibians, harbingers of what’s to come • Effort to limit dust pollution in Owens Valley is advancing, but still room to improve • Los Angeles Business Council's Sustainability Summit 3/27/20 • Author Q&A: "After Geoengineering" by Holly Buck • Ocean Acidification + Vulnerable Shelled Species • Trump rolls back Obama-era water protections. How will that affect California? • Protecting the Monarch: Small steps can make big impact to save majestic butterfly • Many pregnancies are shorter as climate change causes more 90-degree days • One of California’s iconic tree species offers lessons for conservation • Danielle Hoague • Argentina Invasive Willows Senior Practicum: Spark campaign • Stephanie Pincetl • CALPIRG • Karen McKinnon • Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Indigenous peoples on the front line of the climate crisis • Varshini Prakash: No Longer Small • May Boeve: The worldwide movement for climate justice is having a moment. And just in time. • Researcher Kyle Cavanaugh • Student Wellness Commission • Researcher James McWilliams • Energy Storage Solutions (Event) • 2019 Pritzker finalists: May Boeve, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Varshini Prakash • L.A. County taps UCLA to help create first-ever sustainability plan • Meet Pritzker candidates 16-20 • UCLA’s Energy Atlas expands to provide consumption data for most of Southern California • Meet Pritzker candidates 11-15 • Meet Pritzker candidates 6-10 • Meet Pritzker candidates 1-5 • Announcing the 2019 Pritzker Genius Award candidates • Meet optimistic environmentalist and graduating senior Riley Griesenbeck • Will ocean seafood farming sink or swim? UCLA study evaluates its potential