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Rising gas prices put more financial pressure on Latino households, study says — and more media coverage of UCLA

According to a study by the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute, the spiking gas prices are disproportionately affecting the financial health of Latino households largely because they tend to have fewer financial resources and depend on cars for their livelihoods. "Even before the gas prices increased Latinos households were already spending more money on gas than non-Latinos and always experiencing higher costs of house burden," Rosario Majano with the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute told KNBC-TV. Read and hear more about UCLA from NBC News, Phys.org and others.

California’s rail systems need more riders. High gas prices could be fueling a surge — and more media coverage of UCLA

Michael Manville, professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, told the Los Angeles Times that it is generally hard to get people out of their cars, even in times of high gas prices. “People are kind of locked into their cars,” Manville said. “Even when they do start to feel the pinch, they don’t necessarily change their travel behavior, they cut back on other things.” Read and hear more about UCLA in today’s Los Angeles Daily News, LAist and others. 

Tropical forest ecosystems bounce back much faster than we thought — and more media coverage of UCLA

The New York Times featured an article about a new study that found animals returned to deforested land much more quickly than scientists had long thought. UCLA’s Timo Metz, the study’s first author, says the findings disproved the notion that forest regrowth would have to precede animal reintroduction in deforested areas that had been used as pastures or cacao plantations. Instead, many animals returned within three decades rather than after centuries. Read more about UCLA in today’s Associated Press and KCBS-TV.

An executive order to restart oil pipelines might not bypass state law after all — and more media coverage of UCLA

The Los Angeles Times featured energy law expert Allan Marks in a story about a California judge’s rebuff to a recent executive order that sought to bypass state laws in restarting oil pipelines off the state’s Central Coast. Marks, who is a lecturer at the UCLA School of Law, pointed to similar challenges of the Trump administration’s meddling in offshore projects, particularly East Coast wind farms, which the courts have largely rejected. Read more about UCLA in today’s CNN, Associated Press and others.

Experts say COVID-19 subvariant ‘Cicada’ is spreading as summer approaches — and more media coverage of UCLA

In a Los Angeles Times article, UCLA’s Dr. Neil Silverman and other experts discuss the nuances of a highly mutated COVID-19 strain circulating in California that could point to its emergence as more of a summer disease. “COVID doesn’t seem to play by the same rules that influenza tends to play by, where its cycle is predictable,” says Silverman, who is the director of the Infections in Pregnancy Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “COVID is still here. People can’t necessarily take comfort from the fact that we did not have a surge over this past winter.” Read more about UCLA in today’s Associated Press and the Independent.
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