Environment & Energy

In a warming climate, ocean- and land-based floods are a disastrous duo, UCI researchers find

Coastal areas are threatened by both oceanic and terrestrial flooding, and the combination of these factors is especially concerning as sea levels continue to rise. Untangling how oceans and rivers interact – their so-called compounding effects – is a challenge for scientists and engineers trying to estimate the current and future risk of flooding. UCI researchers have […]

UCI among Sierra magazine's top 10 ‘Cool Schools' for eighth straight year

Campus’s green transportation, water conservation, innovation are credited

Engineers pioneer platinum shell formation process - and achieve first-ever observation

UCI researchers have devised a new method of dynamically forming a platinum shell on a metallic alloy nanoparticle core, a development that may lead to better materials for oxygen reduction reactions in fuel cells that power some cars and electronic devices. In a first, engineers were able to observe the process directly, in real time, […]

UCI: Earth is losing its fire power

Industrial farming disrupts burn-regrowth cycle in grasslands, study finds

Climate warming shifts lightning-caused forest fires farther north

Extreme lightning storms are the main driver of recent massive fire years in Alaska and Canada, and these storms are likely to move farther north with climate warming, potentially altering landscapes, according to findings in Nature Climate Change by researchers from UCI, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and elsewhere. Analyzing satellite images and data from ground-based networks, […]

Small climb in mean temperatures linked to far higher chance of deadly heat waves

UCI-led analysis of data from India could have dire implications for future

Cultivating the next generation of scientists

UCI’s Project CRYSTAL integrates classroom and outdoor learning experiences

UCI's James Randerson is elected to National Academy of Sciences

Earth system scientist is honored for climate change studies

India's outsized coal plans would wipe out Paris climate goals

UCI, CoalSwarm: Hundreds of new dirty power plants aren’t needed

UCI to save 80 million gallons in drinkable water annually

Campus partners with Irvine Ranch Water District to convert central cooling plant to recycled water use