Environment & Energy

James Bullock discusses multidisciplinary organization working to counter the impacts of climate change

Mechanical thinning of California’s forests can reduce the severity of wildfires by eliminating built-up vegetation that fuels blazes. According to researchers at UCI, UC Merced and the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, scientifically based forest management practices could also curtail CO2 emissions from fires, promote carbon storage in remaining trees, and improve the […]

Jonpaul Cohen, a native New Zealander who has family on the Pacific islands of Samoa and Tuvalu, is passionate about protecting Polynesian culture, lives and livelihoods from the ravages of climate change. In a presentation to an environmental committee of the New Zealand Parliament on Aug. 4, the UCI undergraduate majoring in psychology advocated for […]

Rather than an industrial solution to excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, a retired UCI physicist looks to nature

Wildfires and climbing temperatures have caused a 6.7 percent decline since 1985

Competition challenges engineers to design and build net-zero carbon energy buildings

New techniques to measure coastal topography will improve understanding of flood risk

National award recognizes partnership with the Irvine Ranch Water District

Research will benefit design of future electronic and thermoelectric technologies

UCI scientists make the discovery using improved tracking algorithms