The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge’s first competitive research grants will go to 11 projects, ranging from developing lightweight solar panels that double as batteries to studying the costs of algae-based biofuels.
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Sean Hecht (UCLA School of Law and Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment) discusses the upcoming California Coastal Commission meeting, detailing potential impacts of decisions made by the commission.
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California’s ecosystems are being pulled apart in an era of climate change, according to the largest-ever empirical study of how different plant species are moving. Jon Christensen (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and department of History) led the study.
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Jon Christensen of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the department of History warns that native plants are struggling to keep up with changes around them as pollution from fuel burning and deforestation continues to warm the planet.
Source: Climate change is leaving native plants behind Climate Central, 8 Feb. 2016
Additional coverage about Jon Christenson’s work studying native plants reacting to climate change:
Ecosystems pulling apart as some plants shift habitats, possibly adapting to climate change UCLA Newsroom, 8 Feb. 2016
According to Robert Wayne and Seth Riley of the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, recent changes in the health and behavior of Santa Monica mountain lions could be mitigated by the construction of an overpass for the animals on the 101 freeway, opening up a migration route.
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