News

Hilary Godwin elected AAAS Fellow

Professor Hilary Godwin has been selected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow.
Posted: 12/17/2009

Satellites beam in biomass estimates

Institute of the Environment Researcher Sassan Saatchi is featured in a Nature News article about assessing carbon levels in the world's tropical forests.
Posted: 12/16/2009

UCLA researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel

Recent advances suggest that cyanobacteria may be able to produce a replacement for fossil fuels - and help combat climate change in the process.
Posted: 12/16/2009

Hot Cities - Surviving Climate Change?

IoE Director Glen MacDonald featured in BBC World News Documentary Series
Posted: 12/14/2009

Climate Change Strategy Session

Mayor Villaraigosa organized a special assembly to determine the key issues to bring to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Posted: 12/9/2009

Misreading Climategate - an LA Times Op-Ed by IoE Director Glen MacDonald

Institute of the Environment Director and Professor Glen MacDonald comments on "Climategate" - the illegal interception of e-mails from scientists at Britain's University of East Anglia.
Posted: 12/9/2009

Students to have front-seat view at world climate talks

Six UCLA Law students will serve as delegates to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Posted: 12/4/2009

UCLA - UC Berkeley study shows how to increase local renewable energy, slow climate change

Report recommends harnessing energy potential of rooftops, roads, aqueducts.
Posted: 12/4/2009

Too Much Pollution

Environmental advocacy group stages press conference to present new report on global warming pollution in the U.S.
Posted: 11/17/2009

UCLA experts take lead in regional climate plan

The (LARC) Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability hopes to transform the Los Angeles region.
Posted: 11/6/2009

UCLA Researcher Finds CO2 at Highest Levels in 15 Million Years

You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth as high as they are today, UCLA chemist Aradhna Tripati and colleagues report Oct. 8 in the online edition of the journal Science.
Posted: 10/9/2009

Waxman, Pavley and others link security and climate at UCLA forum

Politicians and scientists gather at UCLA to discuss the effects of climate change and role that public policy will have in finding a solution.
Posted: 8/30/2009

Environmental centers work together on climate change

Environmental research in departments across UCLA collaborate to understand climate change and make a difference in the community.
Posted: 8/21/2009

Power misers scour campus for ways to save energy

UCLA Energy Services staff create big savings by cutting energy use in rooms across campus.
Posted: 8/15/2009

Stimulus funds help start program to create clean-tech leaders

New UCLA program will develop leaders in clean technology and provide grants to Ph.D. students.
Posted: 8/11/2009

Droughts of past yield lessons for a warming world

Glen MacDonald, the new director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment (IoE), has spent much of the last year conducting research in the subtropical areas of the Northern Hemisphere that are particularly prone to drought, both recently and in the dista
Posted: 7/27/2009

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