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Artist Focuses Camera on Arctic North
Rebeca Méndez, a professor in the Department of Design|Media Arts, films and photographs nature from the Sahara Desert in Africa to the glaciers of Iceland. Next month, she will go on the adventure of a lifetime to the Arctic north.
Posted: 9/24/2010
10 Questions for Jared Diamond on Global Collapse
Diamond's 2005 book and now a National Geographic documentary, "Collapse" juxtaposes America's future with the demise of the Roman Empire and other failed civilizations as a warning that we are hurtling down the same path.
Posted: 9/16/2010
UCLA, Japanese Firm to Collaborate on Nanotech Imaging Tools
The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced plans to collaborate with Hamamatsu Photonics to apply nanoscience and nanotechnology to projects having global importance in health, medicine, energy and the environment.
Posted: 9/10/2010
Countries Far North Will Thrive on Global Warming
As global pressures mount, the New North is well-positioned to prosper economically in the 21st century, a UCLA author says.
Posted: 9/3/2010
Climate Change Is Here to Stay, for Centuries
Carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere has locked the world into at least a 3.6-degree Fahrenheit global temperature increase that will last for millennia, according to a new report released by the National Research Council. Marilyn Raphael, a UCLA geography profesor and member of the report committee, urges action and not despair.
Posted: 8/24/2010
Capitalism Will Help Us Adapt to Climate Change, Economist Says
Matthew E. Kahn, an environmental economist, takes a pessimistic view of climate change--that it's too late to avoid rising sea levels and hotter summers--but believes cities can cope with the changes.
Posted: 8/17/2010
Local Efforts Key to Nuclear Disarmament
Commemorating the atomic bombings on Japan in 1945 and joining in the call for a world without nuclear weapons were, on Wednesday in Haines Hall, a local grandmother who survived the Hiroshima attack, a Japanese-born artist, a UCLA anthropologist and, by Internet link, local officials from Hiroshima and Manchester, UK, who lead international anti-nuclear organizations.
Posted: 8/6/2010
Heat Waves: Get Used to Them
Ann Carlson is professor of law and faculty director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law. Her op-ed orginially appeared on the joint UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools' environmental law blog, Legal Planet, on Friday, July 16, 2010.
Posted: 7/22/2010
Making the World a Better Place, this Summer in Senegal
After spending their first four weeks studying in Dakar, 19 students will go to eco-villages in the Senegal River Valley to explore community development projects in public health, women's micro-financing, solar electricity and organic gardening.
Posted: 7/1/2010
Richard Turco on the Nuttiness of Climate Engineering
Research by the UCLA atmospheric chemist considers whether tinkering with the stratosphere to slow down global warming is feasible, let alone advisable.
Posted: 6/29/2010
UCLA Conference in Doha Opens with Address by Qatari Emir
At the 5th annual conference on "Enriching the Middle East's Economic Future," held in conjunction with the Doha Forum, distinguished participants search for practical solutions to regional issues. The three-day event has been organized by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development.
Posted: 6/1/2010
Two Students Change the World, from South LA to Senegal
UCLA alumnus Brian Rishwain gave two $2,500 awards to urban planning doctoral students Ava Bromberg and John Scott-Railton, who brought an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit to social justice work. Scott-Railton is working in poor slums in Senegal to help the residents counteract devastating floods.
Posted: 5/26/2010
'Atomic Mom' Filmmaker Reveals Secret Stories of the Bomb
At a symposium on the anti-nuclear weapons movement, director M.T. Silvia screens and discusses a new film about her mother's role at a Nevada testing site and the story of a Hiroshima survivor; and Steve Leeper, chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, urges action by nonproliferation treaty signatories on disarmament.
Posted: 5/21/2010
Professor Works to Open Research Facility in Indonesia
Paul Barber hopes program will increase accessibility to research areas of Coral Triangle, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 5/14/2010
RAND Corporation completes study on strategic decision making for Israel
Rand Corporation and Israel
Posted: 5/14/2010
Research Center Will Be at Epicenter of Marine Biodiversity
UCLA is developing a biodiversity research center in Bali, Indonesia, that will support research and educational collaboration between UCLA and three universities in Indonesia: Udayana University, Diponegoro University and the State University of Papua, as well as the Smithsonian Institution.
Posted: 4/16/2010
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Receives UCLA Medal, Lectures on UN's Global Initiatives
In front of a packed house at UCLA's Kerckhoff Hall on March 2, 2010, Chancellor Gene Block presented United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with the UCLA Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the campus.
Posted: 3/2/2010
Does 'Fair Trade' Help Those Who Harvest Tea?
As part of the International Human Rights Film Series, the Asia Institute put on a screening and discussion of an award-winning 2008 documentary, "The Bitter Taste of Tea," that takes a skeptical view of the fair trade movement's ability to protect laborers within this global industry. Listen to scholars, fair trade advocates and audience members delve into the issues in this audio podcast.
Posted: 1/27/2010
Greening North America Energy Relationship Conference 2009, Keynote Address Video
Video of keynote speech by David Suzuki, Frank Gilliam, Jr.
Posted: 1/12/2010
Law Students to Have Front-Seat View at World Climate Talks
Cara Horowitz designed a class around the U.N.'s December conference in Copenhagen and picked six students with environmental law experience to take it. Now they're going on the fieldtrip of a lifetime.
Posted: 12/4/2009
Europe and America Couldn't Be More Different, Right? Not So Fast, Says a UCLA Historian
Marshalling quantitative comparative data on subjects as diverse as colon cancer deaths and the accuracy of clocks in public settings, Peter Baldwin illustrates how differences between the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe are much smaller than commonly supposed.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Obama Committed to Working with International Institutions, US Official Says
Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer looks at U.S. cooperation on issues from global warming to peacekeeping and human rights.
Posted: 11/3/2009
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