UCLA faculty voice: How Angelenos beat back smog
UCLA Law School professor Mary Nichols chronicles the 20-year saga to remove the veil of smog over Los Angeles.
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Happenings
L.A.’s CicLAvia significantly improves air quality in host neighborhoods, UCLA study finds
Fielding School of Public Health finds that one day events like CicLAvia has a measurable improvement on air quality. Further proof that small steps like riding your bike can make a big difference in environmental health.
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Ecotourism can put wild animals at risk, scientists say
The presence of humans changes the way animals behave, and those changes may make them more vulnerable.
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Next-generation perovskite solar cells made stable by metal oxide ‘sandwich’
An advancement by Yang Yang, of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, will foster the use of more efficient solar cells and will provide another tool for the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge to help meet 100% renewable goals.
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Quantifying the impact of climate on ecosystems worldwide
Lawren Sack of the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology served as senior author on a UCLA-led report which has, for the first time, quantified the direct influence of climate on the growth of ecosystems around the globe.
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