The Global Change Research Center was established at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC) in 2008 to address large-scale biophysical, community/ecosystem and socioeconomic transformations impacting the planet. Located in Santiago, … Read more

The growth in natural gas production in the United States over the past decade has led to a shift in thinking about domestic electricity generation. The sheer volume of economically … Read more

Writing for the Mediterranean City Climate Change Consortium newsletter seems a very appropriate task while seated just a few meters from the Mediterranean Sea and suffering the heat of a … Read more

By combining never-before released data from energy utilities with public data, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers created database with an unprecedented look at the energy-use landscape UCLA researchers … Read more

The pace of climate change and the consequent warming of the Earth’s surface is increasing vulnerability and decreasing adaptive capacity. Adapting successfully depends on the development of technology, institutional organization, … Read more

Australia’s war on feral cats: shaky science, missing ethics William Lynn, Clark University In July 2015, the Australian government announced a “war on feral cats,“ with the intention of killing … Read more

William Lynn, Clark University A much-anticipated book in conservation and natural science circles is EO Wilson’s Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, which is due early next year. It builds … Read more

CURes partners organization, Friends of Ballona Wetlands, was recently mentioned as the Ballona Wetlands Freshwater Marsh made the 2015 LA Magazine’s “Best of LA, 83 of our Favorite Things” list. … Read more

Dr. Eric Strauss, CURes Executive Director and President’s Professor of Biology at LMU, was quoted in the following New York Times article: As Americans Figure Out the Roundabout, It Spreads … Read more

This series of blog posts chronicles the summer course that CURes offers for LMU students in Costa Rica called “Tropical Science and Culture in Costa Rica.” We teach this interdisciplinary overview of … Read more

Playa del Rey, California (Tuesday, July 28, 2015) – On a sunny Saturday in coastal Los Angeles County’s Ballona Wetlands, flurries of tiny, blue butterflies were out and about dazzling … Read more