climate change

New state and local policies promoting energy use transparency, public transit funding and sustainable development make researchers are optimistic for improvement.

Scientists from UCLA and other universities developed a system that tests when global warming contributes to record-setting weather events, and to what extent.

The first episode features UCLA environmental economist Magali Delmas.

The three-year effort will be funded with a grant from the Open Philanthropy Foundation.

This vernal equinox — the first day of spring — flora and fauna from Palos Verdes to the Yosemite Valley have been rejuvenated by a historically wet, snowy winter.

UCLA research shows that during future droughts human-induced climate change could all but eliminate California's snowpack, which supplies 60 percent of the state's water supply.

The UCLA study has important implications in an era of climate change.

Alex Hall and Mark Gold say California’s infrastructure needs to be designed for how the state’s climate will be in the future, which likely means more rain and less snow.

Professor Alex Hall’s research shows that, as temperatures warm in the Sierra Nevada, a deluge could overwhelm California’s patchwork network of dams and reservoirs that currently supplies 60 percent of the state's water.

Astrophysicist and author Jeffrey Bennett, winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award, will discuss the science and consequences of global warming Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in UCLA’s Physics and Astronomy Building, room 1-425.

To counter likely cuts in federal funding for research into climate change and energy innovation, California’s government must fill the gap.

You can be among the 1,000 volunteer citizen scientists who will collect 18,000 samples of soil and aquatic sediment from across the state through a new University of California program called CALeDNA.

UCLA professor Alex Hall will present key findings from a study on future impacts of climate change.

“As a university we have a deep commitment to research innovative solutions for tomorrow, to serve the greater public good and to educate the leaders of future generations,” said Chancellor Gene Block.

The drought is highlighting disparities in the price of water that vary widely, depending on who is supplying it in this archaic and complex water delivery system serving Southern California.

New research shows that a collapse of an ice sheet 14,000 years ago in what is now western Canada triggered a reorganization of the jet stream in a century — a geological blink of an eye.

UCLA scientists are studying the Sierra Nevada's climate future using a technique to create simulations to predict outcomes under different circumstances and help them understand the physical reasons for the projected changes.

UCLA’s LENS magazine hosted the founder of the Dot Earth blog to discuss a shared goal: telling environmental stories in new ways.

UCLA and Oregon State University scientists attribute the low levels to high temperatures caused by greenhouse gases and an enormous warm patch in the Pacific Ocean.

A UCLA study shows that warming forces have caused millennia of dryness in California’s prehistory, and greenhouses gases could do the same.

From the capuchin monkeys of Costa Rica to the Los Angeles area's mountain lions, UCLA experts are developing new techniques and advancing knowledge.

UCLA lecturer Andy Rice introduces his students to entomophagy, bug eating, which may someday become a smart alternative to resource-intensive foods such as beef.

Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board and a UCLA faculty member, is a fierce fighter for the environment. She has championed a difficult cause without succumbing to bitterness or wallowing in the polarization that has crippled Sacramento and Washington.

California Governor Jerry Brown has been fighting for the environment for decades. He reflects on that history.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall met Tuesday with stakeholders from across the energy ecosystem at UCLA’s Kerckhoff Hall to discuss how Los Angeles can meet its energy goals.