Environment & Energy

UC Irvine team says urban street networks, building density shape severity of floods

Researchers’ new analytical model can assess neighborhood-level hazards globally

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Government, community and business leaders tour UC Irvine laboratories        

Anteater Academy participants learned about the latest in sustainable energy research

Nationwide flood models poorly capture risks to households and properties

UC Irvine researchers stress need for local topography and infrastructure data

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Anteater Express adds five new buses to electric fleet

UC Irvine is the first university to go with all-electric buses

UC Irvine-led team uncovers ‘vigorous melting’ at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier

Satellite radar data show kilometer-scale seawater intrusion, causing ice to rise and fall

Three men collecting water from an open well

UC Irvine scientist helps link climate change to Madagascar’s megadrought

The finding may help policymakers respond to the crisis

UC Irvine professor outlines solutions to beach erosion

Sanders shared expertise at O.C. Council of Governments annual conference

A glacier in a fjord in Greenland.

Grounding zone discovery explains accelerated melting under Greenland’s glaciers

UC Irvine researchers suggest we may be underestimating severity of sea level rise

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

UCI campus map showing location of combined heat and power plan and location of where heating and cooling water and natural gas service goes.

UCI embarks on decarbonization study

Strategy will be developed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2045