Air pollution, electric vehicles and equitable benefits
September 1, 2026 · UCLA IoES Yifang Zhu discusses how measurements and modeling can help communities understand the air-quality benefits of vehicle electrification.
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Reporting on wildfire recovery, urban air quality and the public value of environmental research.
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Public health after the LA wildfires
See how the team studies air quality and household materials after the fires.
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Air-quality questions after the Boyle Heights fire
June 24, 2026 · UCLA Newsroom Zhu explains why understanding smoke from a warehouse fire requires more than a particle-count reading.
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Local air-quality data for fire recovery
July 23, 2025 · UCLA Newsroom A UCLA-led network brings neighborhood-scale particle measurements to communities recovering from the Palisades fire.
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Scientists scramble to track LA wildfires’ long-term health impacts
March 27, 2025 · Science Reporting from Altadena follows Zhu and collaborators as they investigate contamination in homes that survived the fires.
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