Environment/Energy

Study examines a million corals one by one in urgent call to save reefs

UCI biologist among data contributors to large, unprecedented project

UCI, JPL glaciologists unveil most precise map ever of Antarctic ice velocity

Project utilized 25 years of data from six international satellite missions

‘Committed’ CO2 emissions jeopardize international climate goals, UCI-led study finds

Existing, planned fossil fuel-burning infrastructure must be retired early, replaced

UCI, UC Merced: California forest die-off caused by depletion of deep-soil water

Study warns of threats from future concurrent drought and heat events

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5 junior faculty awarded $50,000 Hellman Fellowships

Five assistant professors at the University of California, Irvine will receive $50,000 Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group of 53 UCI Hellman Fellows since 2013, when the Hellman Fellows Fund established the program here. The 2019-20 awardees, representing a cross-section of disciplines, are: Mohammad […]

Patagonia ice sheets thicker than previously thought, study finds

UCI, South American glaciologists characterize protected region with new methods

Combination of water scarcity and inflexible demand puts world’s river basins at risk

UCI-led study examines consumption patterns and suggests resilience strategies

Barbara Finlayson-Pitts is awarded the 2019 Royal Society of Chemistry Environment Prize

Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded its Environment Prize to Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, UCI professor of chemistry and co-director of AirUCI, “for outstanding contributions to the chemical sciences in the area of environment, sustainability and energy.” Specifically, she was recognized for her pioneering research revealing new processes in the formation of photochemical air pollution and […]

Improved land management project co-led by UCI gets $4.6 million in state funding

Data science will help identify best practices to preserve California’s forests, wildlands

Clean and green: UCI physicist helps invent novel way of converting nitrogen to ammonia

The ammonia you use to clean and disinfect your kitchen floor starts off as nitrogen, a gas that makes up almost 80 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. But the conversion requires the breaking of a strong triple-chemical bond in a high-heat, high-pressure industrial process. UCI physicist Huolin Xin worked with his colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory […]