Environment/Energy

UCI to co-lead $50 million water-energy research consortium

US-China collaboration also will include 4 other UC campuses, university lab

Fires

Southern California wildfires exhibit split personalities

UCI, other researchers examine differences between summer, Santa Ana fires

Heat waves

UCI study finds dramatic increase in concurrent droughts, heat waves

Researchers use unique statistical analysis to identify dual climate threat

Workers install solar panels atop the campus’s Student Center Parking Structure

UCI: We’re the coolest

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

Richard Chamberlin holding a water sample

Testing for toxins

Novel detection method co-developed at UCI ensures that drinking water sources are not compromised by algae blooms

Economic slump, not natural gas boom, responsible for drop in CO2 emissions

The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession – not the reduced use of coal, research from the University of California Irvine, the University of Maryland, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis shows.

UCI and JPL glaciologists aboard the Cape Race

Greenland’s fjords are far deeper than previously thought, and glaciers will melt faster, researchers find

West Greenland’s fjords are vastly deeper than rudimentary models have shown, allowing intruding ocean water to badly undercut glacier faces, which will raise sea levels around the world much faster than previously estimated, a UCI-led research team has found.

World map of aquifer depletion

A third of the world’s biggest groundwater basins are in distress

Irvine, Calif., June 16, 2015 – Two new studies led by UC Irvine using data from NASA Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites show that human consumption is rapidly draining some of its largest groundwater basins, yet there is little to no accurate data about how much water remains in them. The result is that significant […]

Sarah Kimball gathers samples

National conference opens flow of ideas on drought

Top researchers, public officials and policymakers converge at UCI to discuss extreme water shortages and how to handle them

earth's defender

Earth’s defender

Abigail Reyes divides her life into two parts, “B.T.” and “A.T.” – before Terence and after Terence. In February 1999, Terence Unity Freitas, an environmental activist and her “partner in work and love,” was kidnapped and murdered in Colombia. At the time, he was working to halt the plans of major oil companies to drill […]