Environment + Climate

Work launched in the immediate aftermath of the January 2025 blazes continues to deliver practical insights and tools for wildfire risk reduction and disaster response.

Across medicine, environmental studies, public policy, the social sciences and beyond, UCLA scholars in 2025 continued turning discovery into real-world impact.

Bruin Wilson Sherman is blending ecology, social science and social media data to prepare Southern California communities for a wilder future.

The peer-reviewed study, co-led by UCLA Fielding’s Dr. Lara Cushing, shows facilities across the U.S. face rising flood risks due to sea-level rise.

The study offers rare evidence linking intergroup lethal conflict to reproductive benefits.

A new UCLA study finds people clash more with wildlife in drought years.

High-level COP30 events will gather leaders for policy meetings on finance, preservation and the ‘new forest economy.’

A team of UCLA researchers is joining with community partners to test soil samples from neighborhoods hit hard by the blazes.

Miscast as Halloween villains and pests, Joey Curti's ‘Bats and Brews’ public tour shows their ecological value.

UCLA College’s new “Cabinet of Curiosities” podcast spotlights a fang-tastic north-south collaboration between Bruins — and an underappreciated animal hero.

Fast fashion degrades land and people. In Indonesia, Riadini-Flesch is proving it can also heal soil, cut carbon and empower women.

Inhalers have generated over 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually over the past decade.

Smart meters and undergrounding power lines are among promising innovations in addressing climate and fire risks.

The UCLA professor draws a line from the Hurricane Katrina disaster to the nationwide struggle for healthy housing.

A new UCLA Atlas reveals fragmented water governance has unequal impacts on affordability, quality and resilience.

Beachgoers may see the dye tracer experiment Sept. 15, 22–24 and 30, weather permitting.

An analysis of air quality data sources and a study of tiny airborne particles aim to help people make safer choices during fires.

Air samples collected in March and April 2025 showed traces of metals.

Enjoy a twilight educational program and bat walk in the Santa Monica Mountains Sept. 5.

The research with local collaborators is the first to identify how to reliably grow ebony trees from seeds.

Between 30% and 40% of workers who were potentially impacted by the fires filed for UI benefits.

BioPACIFIC MIP, an NSF-funded collaboration launched in 2020, has become a powerful hub for innovation in next-generation materials science.

The new system could help enhance nationwide wildfire preparedness by combining satellite imagery with artificial intelligence.

Global warming has advanced wildfire season from one to almost seven weeks earlier, a new UCLA study shows.

A Fowler Museum exhibition offers reflection and recovery post-Los Angeles wildfires and serves as an important gesture to native communities.