Environmental Research Advocates

Europe is bracing for a new phase of energy turmoil, the most severe since the COVID‑19 pandemic and Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine. On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel carried out coordinated, wide‑ranging strikes on Iran, sharply escalating the...

Currently, the U.S. federal government has shifted its stance on scientific investment, reducing support and enforcement for research and development, particularly in biological health and environmental fields. While this creates a major challenge, it also presents an...

The Fix Our Forests Act, while ostensibly aimed at improving forest health, has drawn criticism for potentially prioritizing logging interests over genuine ecological restoration. Critics argue that the Act, by streamlining environmental reviews and expediting logging...

ERAscience and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA take great pride supporting the annual Nanovation Competition. Top three finalists winners were announced May 18, 2024 and granted funds to support their schools' classroom supplies. Ten finalist teams...

ERAScience CEO / Co-Founder Denise Avchen gifted Nanovation Competition students tickets to attend the launching of Roots and Shoots Basecamp LA event featuring Jane Goodall at the Ebell Theater on Sunday 3/17 St Patrick’s Day. (Above: Denise Avchen backstage with...

Ten teams of 4-5 middle and high school students with a teacher leader and UCLA graduate student mentors met at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA for the annual Nanovation Competition March 8, 2024.  A panel of judges, including Nanovation Competition...

Crazy as it sounds, but all this freezing weather is the result of the North Pole losing pressure to keep its arctic weather belt intact... perhaps cinch up that belt tighter, North Pole.  The North Pole is approximately 36 degrees Fahrenheit warmer since 2016,...

Sierra Club members from the Los Angeles Chapter joined with former mayor of Culver City, Meghan Sahli-Wells, also known as the "Biking Mayor," whose only mode of transportation is a bicycle, and former Pro Cyclist Phil Gaimon, to tour Los Angeles' toxic industrial...

As CEO of ERAScience, I fervently advocate environmental causes like the renowned Jane Fonda initiative, intricately entwining such causes within the very essence of our overarching vision. Jane Fonda champions fundraising to empower climate-focused candidates at...

The International Atomic Energy Agency has approved and is monitoring a slow discharge of radioactive cooling water in the Pacific Ocean from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. Immediately following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake of a magnitude of 9.1mw,...

Streamed live on May 19, 2023Teams of high school students with a teacher leader and UCLA graduate student mentor are invited annually to create cutting-edge nanotechnology business proposals informed by their own research and by a series of workshops coordinated by...

30 years ago, a corporate entity by the name of CADIZ Inc. proposed a plan to pump out 16 billion gallons of water each year from the driest desert in North America, the famed Mojave Desert.  In year 2010, opposition from late activist Elden Hughs and other Sierra...

 A research team from the University of Cambridge, working with colleagues from  Austria, have discovered a potential new method for making high-performance rare-earth-element magnets, Tetrataenite, used in wind turbines and electric cars without the need...

As long as fossil fuels are used in energy power plants, vehicles, heating and ac for buildings, sequestration efforts will never successfully reduce CO2 emissions enough to reverse pollution health damage. A study analysis by the Department of Civil &...

The 10 Nanovation Competition finalists teams from middle and high schools presented their technical projects in the final competition at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA.The final presentations culminate the teams' product development and marketing...

This present year may prove to be the most defining year for Californians in terms of preparing for the worst ecosystem disaster to ever be recorded.  Meteorologists, climate researchers and scientists have been studying atmospheric modeling and abundant natural...

Erascience Denise Ashven meets with fellow founders Drs Rita Blaik, Sarah Tolbert and Elaine Morita at UCLA to kickoff the Nanovation Competition for 2022.  The foundation has been promoting, encouraging and helping to fund young scientists develop innovative ideas in...

YUCK! blurts out from your mouth; same thing most children blurt out when trying fish or onions for the very first time. But you know the adage "Don't knock it until you try it!" and I have news for you: kids are known to eat bugs. I certainly did,...

Watch a live virtual conversation about Jane Goodall's career and latest project, “The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times.”  Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, will be conversing with Dorany Pineda from the Los Angeles Times Book...