USC Dornsife News

Climate change isn’t an inevitable death sentence, and the discipline of psychology must strengthen its ability to act on the issue, new report says. [4 min read]

Human behaviors often shift in response to factors such as changes in public policy and the arrival of new technologies. These changes are hard to predict, and they affect tomorrow’s costs. [5½ min read]

James Fawcett of the USC Sea Grant program at USC Dornsife explains how the line of ships floating off the coast waiting to offload goods is making a mark on the local environment. [5 min read]

The USC Dornsife professor explains how market capitalism will help us adapt to the growing challenges unleashed by a warming planet. [5¼ min read]

The latest USC Dornsife-Union Bank LABarometer survey shows that the effects of climate change have impacted Los Angeles County residents in a variety of ways including mental health. [5 min read]

USC Dornsife paleontology PhD student Hank Woolley is digging into our warmer past to help us understand how we might survive climate change. [5 min read]

The latest survey on sustainability and resilience also reveals a big increase in the number of Los Angeles County residents who say their next car is likely to be electric. [3 min read]

Murad Jah has been a research assistant for the COP26 conference for a year. Now he’s got a virtual front-row seat for the event. [2½ min read]