Earth

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 […]

Sustaining Orange County: UC Irvine professor on parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change

Orange Coast, June 7, 2020

Climate change panel awarded Nobel Peace Prize

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, Oct. 12, for its work to alert the…

A gamble of global proportions

UCI’s Michael Prather is a lead author on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Head shot photos of two men.

Two UC Irvine faculty members elected to National Academy of Engineering

Kyriacos Athanasiou and Eric Rignot recognized for outstanding research leadership

Snow field with the ITEX snow fence at Toolik Field Station in Alaska.

UC Irvine scientists say deepening Arctic snowpack drives greenhouse gas emissions

Insulating effect of deeper snow is thawing ancient carbon permafrost reserves

View of planet Earth

Earth guardians

UCI researchers seek solutions to the many effects of climate change

UCI professor of Earth system science Michael Prather

UCI, others see agriculture as major source of increase in atmospheric nitrous oxide

Long-lived greenhouse gas could hinder international climate goals, researchers say

Greenland ice loss is at ‘worse-case scenario' levels, study finds

UCI glaciologists play key roles on international assessment team

UCI earns status as sustainability leader among U.S. universities

Campus nets No. 1 spot in Sierra’s ‘Cool Schools’ ranking, STARS Platinum rating