Central Valley irrigation intensifies rainfall, storms across the Southwest

Agricultural irrigation in California’s Central Valley doubles the amount of water vapor pumped into the atmosphere, ratcheting up rainfall and powerful monsoons across the interior Southwest, according to a new study by UC Irvine scientists.

Central Valley water

The view from space is not pretty as satellites show California groundwater being pumped for irrigation in unsustainable quantities.

Sacramento stop highlights PRIME-LC Central Valley tour

On July 28, first-year UC Irvine medical students enrolled in the Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC)…

Orange County hospitals continue to see coronavirus spike as virus rips through north and central OC

Voice of OC, Dec. 28, 2020

Leila Safavi-Tehrani

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UCI Applied Innovation smooths the way for Anteater research to become commercial products and benefit society

UCI, NASA scientists find significant groundwater loss in California

New space observations reveal that since October 2003, the aquifers for California’s primary agricultural region – the Central Valley -…

Gregg Macey (left), director of the Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources at UCI Law, and Alejandro Camacho, a Chancellor’s Professor of law and faculty director of CLEANR.

Bridging state, local climate action

UCI Law launches groundbreaking program to integrate city land-use plans with California objectives

UCI researchers (from left) Alejandro Camacho, Isabella Velicogna and Steven Allison.

3 UC Irvine professors garner $8.7 million in state support for climate action projects

UC awards total of more than $80 million for progress toward California’s climate goals

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UCI Podcast: Evaluating California’s flood risk

Brett Sanders, UCI professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been focusing his research efforts on understanding flood risk to Southern California’s communities. Over the years he has studied the impact of climate change-caused sea level rise along California’s coast. Lately he has been examining flood risk to regions further inland, in many cases affecting […]

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UCI Podcast: The technologies that could solve California’s droughts

Policies, and especially attitudes toward water, will have to shift as climate change makes drought more severe, says David Feldman