heat

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

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

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

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. 

Practices to protect public health, including high-risk groups, are featured in an expansive program.

A low-cost approach regulates heat with common building materials that absorb or radiate heat.

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

Incarcerated people are especially vulnerable to heat, experts say, but new protections exclude prisons.

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.

The Luskin Center for Innovation receives a federal grant to prepare for extreme heat.

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

Finding solutions could be challenging, because some regulations aimed at ensuring food safety make it difficult to properly cool the vehicles.

Environmental justice has been the cornerstone of Luskin School efforts related to the city’s hot weather policies.

The finding is significant because some residents who are most likely to use public transit will face the highest risks for death from heat-related causes.

UCLA researchers found that about 20% of the population visits facilities designated to help residents when temperatures spike.

A UCLA study reports that utility bills increase for each day above 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

The temperatures that baked the Pacific Northwest in 2021 should happen roughly once in 10,000 years.

Special Collections is home to a 70-plus-year-old pamphlet that provides the four-part answer to why you are so much more comfortable in air conditioned surroundings.

With climate change, these dual exposures and related health problems will only increase, say researchers who studied the 2020 fire season.

New research looks at the nexus of climate change, sleep and human immunity.

V. Kelly Turner co-leads UCLA’s Heat Resilient L.A. project, which takes a multi-pronged approach that emphasizes equitable solutions to this dangerous problem.

As temperatures rise, so does the risk of serious illness. UCLA doctors tell you how to protect yourself and your loved ones.

While many municipal climate plans cite extreme heat as a threat, few propose any comprehensive strategy to address it, a UCLA-led analysis shows.

Research produced by those in the California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic has influenced proposed legislation.