Environment/Energy

UCI seismologist Lisa Grant Ludwig finds far more frequent earthquakes along the San Andreas fault.

Emerging field helps create a more sustainable future, though information technology itself is part of the problem.

With his bow ties and seersucker suits, Roger McWilliams might appear to be old-fashioned, but the UCI physicist invents futuristic laser tools that have advanced everything from telecommunications to healthcare.

UCI is among California universities receiving up to $122 million to create fuels from sunlight.

This summer, surfers and swimmers will risk more than sunburn — the ocean could make them sick. UCI researchers are testing the waters and working to improve the detection, identification, measurement and elimination of coastal pollutants.

UC Irvine professor William Cooper follows the trail of plastic debris that’s spreading from the coast to the deep sea.

UCI researchers find disturbing amounts of certain gases above massive Gulf slick. More study is needed.

Sunny Jiang, a UC Irvine researcher studying pollution in Orange County’s coastal waters, recently got a graphic look at how swimming and surfing in the ocean can make people sick. She and a team of graduate students charted incidents of poor water quality at Southern California beaches over a 10-year period and the number of […]

On a clear spring day at Crystal Cove State Park, UC Irvine professor William Cooper and undergraduate Tova Handelman sift though a mound of seaweed and sand, oblivious to the curious stares of beachgoers. They’re too busy studying trash. “Look at all this plastic!” says Cooper, picking out a pellet no bigger than a grain […]

Researchers in UC Irvine’s Center for Cosmology are opening new windows into space and finding lost matter and bright galaxies.