Environment/Energy

Scientists use radiocarbon dating to analyze everything from the world’s oldest shoe to sediment samples that shed light on global climate change

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement … and zombies

Vice Chancellor Wendell Brase is widely credited with curbing campus’s energy consumption and costs

UCI will host – and compete in – the California Challenge, which pits alternative-fuel race cars against each other

First-of-its-kind summer institute cultivates environmental activism – and leadership skills – among incoming students

Led by Donald Blake, UCI scientists have been on a decades-long global quest to measure atmospheric pollution

Grove fell short of great expectations but has proven valuable in Earth system science studies

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement and loss of campus stalwarts

UCI is at the center of the next wave of advanced manufacturing at the Rapid Tech Center, and it shows as federal officials host a related workshop here.

Using sophisticated satellite technology, Isabella Velicogna documents the ice sheet melt in Greenland and Antarctica. The assistant professor of Earth system science has shown that glaciers are losing mass at an increasing rate — a trend with dire implications for the planet.