UCLA faculty voices: No quick fix for those melting glaciers
Daniela Cusack (department of Geography) declares there is no easy fix for climate.
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Happenings
New lab in Santa Monica Mountains will aid conservation scientists
A $500,000 gift from Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky will add a laboratory to the La Kretz Field Station located in Malibu. Much of the research conducted there, including that of Sustainable LA faculty member Brad Shaffer, will contribute to the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.
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UCLA Health System hospitals honored for environmental achievements
Both Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, have been honored with 2014 Partner for Change awards by Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit organization that works with the health care community to increase efficiency and environmental stewardship while improving patient safety and care through the use of best practices and new tools and knowledge.
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No way around it: Reducing emissions will be the primary way to fight climate change, UCLA-led study finds
An interdisciplinary team of professors from UCLA and five other universities concludes definitively that we have to cut down on the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere. Daniela Cusack, an assistant professor of geography and a faculty member of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, was the lead author of the study.
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UCLA prof gives TV viewers bird’s-eye view of climate change
Alex Hall (department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) will appear in the next episode of “Years of Living Dangerously,” a nine-part series exploring how climate change is affecting people from different walks of life from around the globe.
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