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Global Climate Change and Solutions that Scale

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report in March 2023 warning of the dire consequences to come if annual global mean temperature increases by 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels, which could happen in the first half of the 2030s. Humanity is expected to face crippling heat waves, flooding, drought, mass […]

Diane Pataki

Climate change: global problem, local response

UCI’s Diane Pataki discusses strategies for dealing with climate change in Southern California.

People on the outside deck of an ocean research vessel at sea.

Climate change is overhauling marine nutrient cycles, UC Irvine scientists say

The research is the first field-based confirmation of such climate impacts

Photo-like satellite image of southern Greenland on the afternoon of September 4, 2022. Bare, dirty ice at the margin of the ice sheet appears gray. Snow-covered ice is bright white. Pale blue ribbons and circles are lakes, rivers and ponds of melt water.

UC Irvine Earth system scientists discover missing piece in climate models

Their update accounts for the effects of overlooked physical properties in ice

Globally significant upwelling is driven by topographical features on seafloor

UC Irvine Earth system scientist is part of team that released, tracked deep ocean dye

The 2024 Climate Action Fellows are, from left, Jazmín Romero, Angelu Lesaca and Kendall Lankford.

Champions of change

UC Irvine’s Climate Action Fellows spearhead campus sustainability

Left to right, Hui Wang, Allison Welch and Jinhyuk Kim, graduate students in the UC Irvine Department of Earth System Science.

UC Irvine researchers shine light on rapid changes in Arctic and boreal ecosystems

The changes point toward increasingly unstable ecosystems at high latitudes

Bill Tomlinson, UCI professor of informatics

UC Irvine researcher authors ‘scientists' warning' on climate and technology

Academics explore roles of clean energy and AI in combating global warming

NASA funds UC Irvine-led mission to record changes in Antarctica's ice sheet

Researchers will use data from upcoming and existing international satellite missions

Pramod Khargonekar (left), UCI vice chancellor for research and UCI’s Chief Innovation Officer Errol Arkilic (right).

UCI launches climate action innovation hub with $1 million state grant

Program will leverage regional strengths to help California reach its climate goals