⚡ UCLA climate expert Daniel Swain tells @WashingtonPost that dry lightning, heat and wind could escalate wildfire activity across the West. With record July heat and unstable weather, fires like the #ParkFire may spread rapidly. #WildfireSeason washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/0…

Squirrels, science and storytelling 🐿️ David Colgan, Director of Communications at UCLA loES, released a children's book inspired by a real-life squirrel. Read the full Q&A about ‘Chester’s Way’ below! ucla.in/4dqGV3L

Read this month's Editors' Choice article, Relative importance of intensity and spectrum of artificial light at night in disrupting behavior of a nocturnal rodent by Travis Longcore & co UCLA Environment journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

A new mountain lion in Griffith Park? UCLA’s Seth Riley shares what this rare sighting means for the future of L.A.’s wildlife. UCLA Environment

Next on our 7-city US tour, Hussein El Gaafary visited LA & SF to discuss water scarcity & climate tech solutions w/ city officials & tech innovators. He then headed south to explore collaboration around common climate challenges facing the UAE & Arizona’s desert environments.

Humans are stealing food from lions – and it’s more than just a risky gamble. A new UCLA study reveals that human kleptoparasitism, the act of stealing food from predators, could pose a significant threat to lion conservation and human health. ioes.ucla.edu/article/humans…

Congrats 🎉🎉to UCLA University of California prof. Jenny Jay of UCLA Civil & Environmental Engineering on being awarded a Hypothesis Fund grant for her project exploring how antimicrobial resistance emerges in the environment. #engineerchange

UCLA IoES’s 2024 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Nominees are here 🌎🙇🌿 Meet the future of sustainability & learn about their groundbreaking work — winner will be announced Oct 30th & take home $100,000. ucla.in/3XbnFS6

“We have to adapt because climate change is happening now — and it’s only going to get worse,” said UCLA climate scientist Glen MacDonald. “But you cannot tell people there’s nothing they can do about it, because that’s not true. This is about hope.” 🌱✨ ucla.in/3SQ7sii

UCLA loES has secured a $3M grant to tackle extreme heat in Los Angeles 🔥 The LARC #HEAT campaign will protect vulnerable communities from rising temps, collaborating with 75+ public health experts & tribal leaders. LA Public Health @ucla ucla.in/3Xagc5s

UCLA Environment has announced the 2024 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award nominees! 🌱From scientists to communicators and more, these trailblazers are reshaping the future of #EnvironmentalJustice. Discover their stories: ucla.in/3XbnFS6 #Sustainability Physical Sciences UCLA

We are thrilled to announce that Blue Resources Trust Co-Founder and Director and MCAF Fellow Daniel Fernando has been nominated for UCLA's 2024 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award! Daniel was nominated by the New England Aquarium's Chief of Conservation and Stewardship, Letise LaFeir! 💙

Meet the first five candidates for the 2024 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award⚡️ They’re protecting threatened marine species, empowering underserved communities and restoring global ecosystems. #uclaioes ioes.ucla.edu/article/meet-t…

Congrats to Dean Miguel García-Garibay, recipient of the 2025 American Chemical Society James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry! Garcia-Garibay Research Group (MGG Lab) UCLA Physical Sciences UCLA C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) UCLA College Learn more here: bit.ly/MGGACSFlackNor…

Meet the UCLA Pritzker Environmental Genius Award nominees # 6-10 🧃🚯 🌍🌤️ They’re integrating gender equality in climate action, taking on water scarcity and cleaning ocean debris across the globe. ucla.in/479aHY7

New bird🐦‍⬛research🚨! So excited to share our new study in NatureEcoEvo! In it, we examine shifts in the breeding latitude, elevation, and phenology of North American #birds in relation to #climatechange! The last paper of my UCLA EEB postdoc with Morgan Tingley🥲 A🧵...

What do a marine biologist, Colombian activist, AI scientist and ecologist have in common? Their work is helping tackle the climate crisis — and they’re the 2024 UCLA Pritzker Award’s final group of nominees. ucla.in/3AN7v8B

🐦🌤️ How are birds coping with a warming climate? New UCLA study in NatureEcoEvo shows that North American birds are adapting to climate change by shifting breeding seasons more than moving geographically 🕔 Monte Neate-Clegg Morgan Tingley @uclaeeb ucla.in/47aNuVD

From insomnia to cancer, light pollution is harming our health — UCLA ecologist Travis Longcore shares why minority communities are "especially at risk” in a new article for National Geographic. Travis Longcore @ucla nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…