A research team from the UCLA Samuel School of Engineering and Caltech has published new findings in Nature Catalyst about the development of a promising method to efficiently convert carbon dioxide into ethylene, a chemical used in the production of cosmetics, plastics, solvents and a myriad of other products used globally.
Eric Fournier (research director, California Center for Sustainable Communities at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability) spoke with UCLA Newsroom about the impacts of California’s recent historic wildfires on the state’s electric grid and implications for future resiliency.
Yifang Zhu (professor of environmental health sciences at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health) was quoted in national media stories about the environmental and health impacts of the wildfires burning across California.
UCLA’s California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC) is part of a research team that was awarded a $9 million California Energy Commission grant for the development of an innovative renewable energy access project in the San Gabriel Valley.
Students and faculty of UCLA’s Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) reported and produced an upcoming documentary, “The New West and the Politics of the Environment,” with the public media channel KCET. It will air on September 29, 2020 as part of the series “Earth Focus.”