UCLA Environment

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

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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