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New air pollution monitors launch near Palisades fire | Los Angeles Times

UCLA researchers have launched 20 new air pollution monitors across northwest Los Angeles County to better understand how much fine ash and coarse dust are being kicked up in the Palisades fire burn area as reconstruction advances. The network stretches from Topanga State Park through Brentwood and Santa Monica, updating every five to ten minutes on an online map. (UCLA’s Yifang Zhu was quoted. Also: LAist.)  

Still ways judges can block some Trump policies | USA Today

David Marcus, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, studied class actions beginning in 2011, when the Supreme Court tightened restrictions on them, and found courts were still favorable to litigants in 75% of cases through 2020. “There shouldn’t be a lot of fights over whether the evidence supports classification,” Davis told USA Today. “Most of them are quite easy, clear-cut cases.”

Doctors develop AI-powered ‘robot’ therapist | Los Angeles Times

Major medical institutions in Los Angeles are embracing the trend. UCLA Health is using AI to help doctors catch strokes faster, reduce hospital re-admissions and spend more time with patients by automating medical notes, said Paul Lukac, chief AI officer.

The hell that is paying for parking in L.A. | Los Angeles Times

“We’re a bit behind the curve,” said Mike Manville, professor of urban planning at UCLA and author of the recent paper “The Causes and Consequences of Curb Parking Management.” “The apps aren’t new, but they haven’t quite gotten sorted out to a point where we can see if we are going to get some standardization.”

We designed shade out of our cities. We can design it back | Fast Company

Ten thousand years ago, more than half of the land on Earth was shaded by tree canopies. Today, after millennia of deforestation, agriculture and urbanization, that number has dropped to just 30%. The problem is particularly dire in cities: A recent map by UCLA and the nonprofit American Forests revealed staggering “shade deserts” in almost every major urban region in the U.S.