Tag Archive for: Environment

Photo credit: Sean Brenner

Days with hazardous levels of air pollutants are more common due to increase in wildfires

In Western U.S., health risks from ground-level ozone and fine…
Image of Farwiza Farhan with baby elephantCourtesy of Farwiza Farhan

Farwiza Farhan wins UCLA’s Pritzker Award for environmental innovators

By David Colgan Conservationist receives $100,000 for work…
Image of two people planting an ebony sapling

UCLA’s Congo Basin Institute receives $1 million from Bob and Cindy Taylor

By Jonathan Riggs In line with his long-standing commitment…
Photo of Urban oil drilling in Inglewood. Photo Credit: Ty Woodson/KLCS

UCLA environmental experts featured in PBS series about sustainability

Faculty and others play a major role in shaping stories of accountability…
A portrait of Clara Pratte.

Tribal leader Clara Pratte wins Pritzker Award for young environmental innovators

The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability presented…
Divers survey submersible cages used to farm cobia off the coast of Puerto Rico. UCLA researchers conducted the first country-by-country evaluation of the potential for marine aquaculture under current policies and practices.

Will ocean seafood farming sink or swim? UCLA study evaluates its potential

  Seafood farming in the ocean — or marine aquaculture…
Photo of Justin Caram, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA College, and graduate student Dayanni Bhagwandin.

New UCLA fellowship aims to make environmental science more inclusive

  Climate change touches every life on the planet…