Environment & Energy

Nationwide flood models poorly capture risks to households and properties

UC Irvine researchers stress need for local topography and infrastructure data

bus parked

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

Machine learning climate simulation dataset paper wins award at prominent AI conference

UC Irvine Earth system scientists and data scientists led the development of the high-fidelity tool

A colorfully lit home exterior under a twilight sky in the early evening.

Building homes for a sustainable world

UC Irvine student engineer teams earn praise for innovation at the Sustainability Decathlon