The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has created the UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions to address the health effects of climate change. UCLA C-Solutions will collaborate with Los Angeles community members and elected officials to advance research-based strategies to strengthen communities’ climate resilience and slow the harmful health impacts of climate change.
Read more →Edith de Guzman (TreePeople, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability) and David Eisenman (UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters) were two contributing authors on a Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collaborative study on urban heat and potential cooling strategies.
Read more →Students head back to school this month in Los Angeles, albeit remotely. We sat down with R. Jisung Park, assistant professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, to learn more about his research on heat and student performance, as well as the disproportionate impacts on Black and Hispanic students. The takeaway: Whether learning takes place in school or at home, temperature matters.
Read more →California can expect more intense levels of precipitation from atmospheric rivers as the climate changes, a team of UCLA researchers have found.
Read more →According to a new study published by UCLA climate scientists, climate change will increase extreme rainfall and reduce snowfall in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains by the 2070s.
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