UCLA Sustainability

11/07/2025

11/07/2025

How should California recover after disaster? With the help of over 40 UCLA experts, the Blue Ribbon commission addresses rebuilding after the fires: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-20/rebuilding-commission

Los Angeles Times

11/07/2025

Beautiful summer days at UCLA! 💙☀️🐻

10/07/2025

From UCLA and the Universidad Adolfo Ibañe, this research's contribution of a formula that can describe climate change impacts across regions is a valuable tool.

The longest and rarest heat waves — which can last for weeks — show the greatest increase in frequency.

09/07/2025

👀🐦‍⬛Calling all birders, bird enthusiasts, and Bruins interested in helping our feathered friends: just 10 minutes of monitoring can help climate scientists at UCLA learn how wildfire smoke impacts California's bird population. https://www.project-phoenix-investigating-bird-responses-to-smoke.org/

09/07/2025

Watching birds for 10 minutes a week can help climate scientists this summer.
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/bird-watching-fire-season-ucla

08/07/2025

"We don’t know a lot about how wildfire smoke is impacting birds and our team is trying to change that."

"Project Phoenix" relies on community science to study how wildfire smoke effects birds.

07/07/2025

01/07/2025

David Eisenman, professor of medicine at UCLA and co-director of the Center for Healthy Climate Solutions, led the team that developed the statistical methods behind the heat score system tool.
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/new-california-tool-ranks-extreme-heat-danger-by-neighborhood

The California Communities Extreme Heat Scoring System — which the state is calling CalHeatScore — can tell you the level of heat-related health risk you face, on a scale of zero to four, and point you to cooling resources in your area.

25/06/2025

Read this prize-winning story about the UCLA Congo Basin Institute’s efforts to map the African rainforests, a mission that could revolutionize climate science — and just maybe save the planet.

UCLA’s Congo Basin Institute is out to definitively map the African rainforests, a mission that could revolutionize climate science — and just maybe save the planet.

24/06/2025

New Report: UCLA published today “Research Context and Considerations: Informing Resilient Rebuilding from the January 2025 Los Angeles Fires” alongside the Blue Ribbon Commission on Climate Action and Fire-Safe Recovery’s Final Policy Recommendations aimed at charting a path toward climate-resilient rebuilding and long-term fire preparedness.

Read more: sustainablela.ucla.edu/ResilientLA

The Commission’s work was guided by a research effort led by UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge. The SLAGC team is proud to have been part of this effort that:

🔧 worked with 20 volunteer civic leaders on the Commission, chaired by Matt Petersen
🎓 brought together 40 leading scholars from UCLA and beyond led by Megan Mullin
🗣️ spearheaded a robust community engagement effort with more than 100 fire survivors and dozens of other stakeholders and experts to help guide the Commission's work.

Thanks to County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath for convening this effort, and to the California Community Foundation for supporting.

24/06/2025

More than 40 UCLA scholars from across the campus provided their expertise to help ensure long-term, equitable, sustainable, and resilient recovery after the January 2025 fires.

More than 40 scholars contributed their expertise to the effort, which issued its final recommendations today.