Publication: Salon
UCLA Expert: Morgan Tingley: Associate Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Synopsis: A warming planet is slowly advancing the arrival of spring – an alarming trend for the hatching of birds. A new study, led by Tingley, found that birds are producing fewer chicks when they start breeding too early or too late in the spring season.
Publication: Science Daily
UCLA Expert: Morgan Tingley: Associate Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Casey Youngflesh: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Synopsis: A new UCLA study found that birds can't keep up with the earlier arrival of spring caused by climate change. As a result, they're raising fewer young.
Publication: Associated Press
UCLA Expert: Park Williams: Associate Professor and Climate Hydrologist, Department of Geography
Synopsis: As smoky as the summer has been so far, scientists say it will likely be worse in future years because of climate change.
Publication: Phys.org
UCLA Expert: Brian Wood: Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Anthropology
Synopsis: Honeyguide birds and honey badgers might be cooperating to steal honey from bees, according to a new study on hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Africa.
Publication: N.Y. Times
UCLA Expert: Michael Jerrett: Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health; Co-Director, Center for Healthy Climate Solutions; Member, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Faculty, Center for Occupational & Environmental Health; Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health
Publication: Associated Press
UCLA Expert: Park Williams: Associate Professor and Climate Hydrologist, Department of Geography
Synopsis: Climate change is turning major snow falls into more extreme mountain rain, worsening both dangerous flooding and long-term water shortages.
Publication: Time
UCLA Expert: Dante Simonetti: Associate Professor, UCLA School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Synopsis: Equatic, a California-based company, signed an agreement to remove 62,000 tons of carbon on behalf of aerospace giant Boeing earlier this summer.
Publication: NPR
UCLA Expert: Daniel Swain: Assistant Researcher and Climate Specialist, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Synopsis: This year, something else is adding fuel to heat waves: the El Niño climate pattern. That seasonal shift makes global temperatures warmer, which could make 2023 the hottest year ever recorded.
Publication: Vox
UCLA Expert: Karen McKinnon: Assistant Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Synopsis: As roads, parking lots, and buildings cover natural landscapes, cities like Los Angeles and Dallas end up absorbing more heat than their surroundings and can become as much as 20 degrees Fahrenheit warmer. This is a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect.
Publication: N.Y. Times
UCLA Expert: Daniel Swain: Assistant Researcher and Climate Specialist, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Synopsis: If it had to be taken out of service, a serious rainstorm, like the one that had been falling on Northern California for days, could cause the Oroville Dam, 60 miles north of Sacramento, — the tallest in the United States — to fail.
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