Global warming could release carbon from forest soils

Vast amounts of additional carbon would warm the atmosphere even more, leading to escalation of climate change.

UCI's efforts to reduce carbon recognized

Honor rewards operations, curriculum and research designed to mitigate climate change.

How big is your carbon footprint?

UCI research group uses collaborative filtering to build a better online carbon footprint calculator.

Jack Brouwer lecturing in front of a diagram.

Clean energy for ‘everyone and for everything’

An Earth Day talk with Clean Energy Institute director Jack Brouwer

The 2024 Climate Action Fellows are, from left, Jazmín Romero, Angelu Lesaca and Kendall Lankford.

Champions of change

UC Irvine’s Climate Action Fellows spearhead campus sustainability

Left to right, Hui Wang, Allison Welch and Jinhyuk Kim, graduate students in the UC Irvine Department of Earth System Science.

UC Irvine researchers shine light on rapid changes in Arctic and boreal ecosystems

The changes point toward increasingly unstable ecosystems at high latitudes

Bill Tomlinson, UCI professor of informatics

UC Irvine researcher authors ‘scientists’ warning’ on climate and technology

Academics explore roles of clean energy and AI in combating global warming

Blue-ringed octopus.

UC Irvine engineers invent octopus-inspired technology that can deceive and signal

Unique design approach enables ease of fabrication and self-repair capabilities

2023 Year in Review

2023 Year in Review – Faculty achievements

In an aeroponic garden on the patio of The Anteatery, leafy greens and herbs are grown for consumption by hungry UCI students.

America’s greenest university

How UCI continues to lead the way in sustainability practices