UCI: We’re the coolest
Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row
August 11, 2015
Environment/Energy
Testing for toxins
Novel detection method co-developed at UCI ensures that drinking water sources are not compromised by algae blooms
August 10, 2015
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.
July 21, 2015
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.
July 14, 2015
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 […]
June 16, 2015
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
April 17, 2015
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 […]
April 01, 2015
Measuring Earth’s Meltdown
An expedition to Greenland with UCI glaciologists reveals ‘time bomb’ effects of global warming
April 01, 2015
Levee detonations reduced 2011 flood risk on Mississippi River, UCI-led study finds
Researchers urge greater control of resultant erosion in future scenarios
March 20, 2015
World’s challenges demand science itself change – and fast, UCI’s Steve Davis, others say in article
UCI Earth system scientist Steve Davis is among a group of leading scientists who make a case in the journal Science this week that growing global challenges have rendered obsolete sharply segregated research and expertise. The world has little use, and precious little time, for one-subject experts, they argue. Traditional, single-discipline approaches to such crises as air pollution, […]
February 26, 2015