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UCLA faculty voice: Oroville Dam shows urgent need for climate adaptation
The crisis at Oroville Dam should be a wake-up call to those…

Become a citizen scientist and help preserve California’s biodiversity
Would you like to become a volunteer citizen scientist helping…

Chilling climate revelations from the last ice age
About 14,000 years ago, the southwest United States was lush…

Infants show apparent awareness of ethnic differences, UCLA psychologists report
Infants less than a year old, who have yet to learn language,…

UCLA students get a big kick out of being ‘Big Bang’ scholars
As five UCLA freshmen settled onto a bus Thursday that would…

Preventing mass extinctions of big mammals will require immediate action
Preventing the extinction of gorillas, rhinoceroses, elephants,…

Los Angeles is a metropolitan den for mountain lions
Los Angeles is one of only two megacities — Mumbai, India,…

Technique from biology helps explain the evolution of the American car
Borrowing a technique that biologists might use to study the…

Using big data, scientists discover biomarkers that could help give cancer patients better survival estimates
People with cancer are often told by their doctors approximately…

UC regents appoint Dr. Owen Witte University Professor
Dr. Owen Witte, renowned scientist and esteemed member of UCLA’s…