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On water recycling, Nevada is leagues ahead | Las Vegas Review-Journal

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, combed through often-inaccessible wastewater data to show that Nevada leads the seven states with a rate of 85 percent reuse of its wastewater. With no standardized reporting across the country, that often meant calling individual treatment plants and asking for data. “It’s not every day that Nevada has some serious environmental bragging rights,” said Mark Gold, a UCLA professor and director of water scarcity solutions at the Natural Resources Defense Council. (UCLA’s Noah Garrison was also quoted. Also: CBS News.)

Scientists reveal the hairy truth about giant ground sloths | New York Times

They employed an analysis that two authors involved in the study, Robert Eagle and Aradhna Tripati of the University of California, Los Angeles, pioneered in earlier research that sampled fossilized teeth. Using three megathere teeth and two teeth from relatively smaller ground sloths, they measured the abundance of certain isotopes within minerals inside the sloth teeth, Eagle explained. “Isotopes are transformative to be able to illuminate the body temperature of extinct species,” Tripati said. (UCLA’s Randon Flores was also quoted.)

The implications of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption | Cosmos

Hunga-Tonga, below sea level, was expected to do the opposite, because of the huge amounts of water vapour ejected, says atmospheric scientist Ashok Gupta of the University of California, Los Angeles.  

Trump’s tariffs are designed to backfire | The Atlantic

“I would be shocked if we make it through next year without a recession,” Kimberly Clausing, an economist at the UCLA School of Law, told me. (Clausing was also quoted by The Washington Post and UCLA’s Chris Tang was quoted by Business Insider.)

DOGE cuts grant funding to UCLA | KABC-TV

“This program was helping to keep people living with HIV healthier. Out of the emergency rooms. Off the streets,” [said UCLA’s Dr. Pamina Gorbach].

Wildfires a generation-defining trauma for families and children | KNBC-TV

“Left unchecked, left unprocessed, the child could face a more challenging path ahead,” said UCLA’s Gregory Leskin (approx. :55 mark).