Environment + Climate

Presented by the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the new prize is the first major environmental award for those under 40.

UCLA environmental researchers create comprehensive model to find out how Los Angeles County can reduce its reliance on imported water.

A UCLA-student–led survey uncovered stark disparities in public health outcomes for L.A. neighborhoods with oil and gas drilling.

Panelists focused on ways in which California can continue to lead the charge via legislative and regulatory innovations at the state and local level.

Data collected in the Congo by UCLA scientists and others will help empower global initiatives to protect the planet.

Study raises questions about water management and supply in an area that produces more than half of fruit, vegetable and nut crops in the United States.

The nonprofit Chefs Collaborative and UCLA co-hosted speakers on a series of sustainable food panels, featuring food-scene stars, UCLA staff and faculty and food critic Jonathan Gold.

UCLA alumni and brothers Mark Gold, respected environmental advocate and scientist, and Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer, on what restaurants, chefs and legislators can do.

“Climate Lab” — a six-episode video series on climate change from Vox and the University of California — is already getting plenty of attention although it's just getting started.

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.

UCLA study shows that certified green buildings save 319 million pounds of carbon emissions in Los Angeles per year. Unfortunately, smaller buildings are left behind.

UCLA's Congo Basin Institute led a team of UCLA and Cameroonian students into a rain forest in central Africa to reopen a field station in a jungle with a thriving ecosystem with birds, elephants and monkeys.

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.

UCLA’s extensive water-saving program garnered the Water Efficiency Project of the Year award, presented by the environmentally focused organization the Los Angeles Better Buildings Challenge at its third annual Innovation Awards ceremony.

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.

Researchers found that exposure to the pollution caused mice to experience changes in the normal composition of gut bacteria. This in turn produced a cascade of negative health effects.

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.

From linen-free tables and wine kegs to maximum use of natural light and recycled steel, the new UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center leads the way in sustainability.

Sixty-two percent of California voters said access to coastal areas is a problem, and even more said that they were deterred by the cost of parking, overnight accommodations and transportation options.

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.

The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge awarded its second round competitive research grants this month, providing $1 million to eight new projects focusing on renewable energy, transportation and urban ecosystems.