climate

With serious wildfires popping up like whack-a-mole in greater Los Angeles, what’s the fire risk this weekend? Find out at 4:30 p.m. PT on Jan. 10 with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. 

New research links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere’s sponge-like ability to drop and absorb water.

University teams are working to mitigate the potentially destructive and life-threatening impacts of the dangerous conditions.

Six faculty members tell us what they see transpiring in their fields over the next 12 months.

In practice and in scholarship, magic continues to intrigue and inspire students, faculty and staff throughout UCLA. Here are a few quick glimpses behind the glamour.

UCLA experts on wildfires, climate change, Santa Ana winds and wildfire-smoke are available to add context to the Franklin Fire.

UCLA environmental law expert Cara Horowitz, fresh from COP29, outlines the difficulties in the climate finance discussion.

By favoring loyalty over job experience, the president-elect’s picks could hinder his efforts to roll back climate-related regulations.

Pure Water LA/Operation Next would increase the resiliency of drinking water supplies to future costs, earthquakes and climate-induced drought.

California chapparal fire burns into urban Ventura County, showing need for strategies beyond fighting ‘forest’ fires.

UCLA experts talk post-election climate policy; climate scientist Daniel Swain will hold a Q&A focused on the National Weather Service.

UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses weather modification, as well as contrails, conspiracies and solar radiation management.

UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain will discuss California’s fire outlook and what’s real vs. fake regarding weather control.

UCLA experts discuss post-election predictions for the presidential candidates, who have stark differences in their climate policies.

UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain will discuss Hurricane Helene in a climate context and California’s fire weather.

Signals from La Niña suggest we’re in for a hot fall, says UCLA atmospheric scientist and statistician Karen McKinnon.

The UCLA climate scientist will discuss the wildfire situation in Southern California and Davis Fire south of Reno.

You know it’s hot – but is it unusually hot? Find out at 2 p.m. PT on Sept. 4 with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. 

Check out a sampling of a decade’s worth of bird research by UCLA faculty and students.

UCLA climate expert Daniel Swain discusses the heat wave that has baked baked more than nine-tenths of California's land.

UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses long-lasting heat waves that are baking the western U.S. on Saturday, July 6, at 3 p.m. PT.

UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses this summer’s record-breaking heat and extreme rain and flooding on Monday, June 24, at 1 p.m. PT.

An informal survey shows hundreds of IPCC scientists now expect the world to reach at least 2.5° C of warming. Swain weighs in.

Record rainfall across Dubai and the Arabian Peninsula is more likely the result of climate change than cloud seeding, says the UCLA climate scientist.

This weekend’s much colder storm brings the potential for multiple feet of snow, creating a kind of “snow whiplash,” Swain says.