Environment/Energy

Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh visits UCI

Demonstrations focused on workforce implications of developing more sustainable transportation infrastructure

Climate change is driving plant die-offs in Southern California, UCI study finds

Loss of vegetation cover is most stark in desert ecosystems already on edge of habitability

Two Henry Samueli School of Engineering scientists win DOE early career awards

Funding will support research in advanced energy and materials science technologies

Greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions are lengthening and intensifying droughts

UCI study shows human-sourced boost to drying in Americas, Africa and Asia

Isabella Velicogna

UCI’s Velicogna contributes to study stressing benefits of limiting greenhouse gas emissions

Climate model predictions made more precise through use of NASA GRACE satellite data

UCI researchers identify primary causes of Greenland’s rapid ice sheet surface melt

Weather station data point to wind- and solar-driven heating as leading culprits

California’s wildfire season has lengthened, and its peak is now earlier in the year

UCI environmental engineers analyzed a century’s worth of the Golden State’s blazes

UCI-led study uses plankton genomes as global biosensors of ocean ecosystem stress

UCI graduate students, researchers traveled the world to chart major ocean regions

New U.S. Carbon Monitor website compares emissions among the 50 states

Tool helps to track abrupt yet temporary emissions declines during pandemic

Tenfold carbon emissions reduction needed to meet Paris climate goal

UCI Earth system scientist Steve Davis part of international team evaluating global warming factors