UC Irvine researchers create E. coli-based water monitoring technology

Bacterium used as a live sensor to detect heavy metal contamination

F. Sherwood Rowland (left) and Mario Molina, here in their UCI lab in the early 1970s, discovered how the ozone layer was being destroyed.

How UCI saved the ozone layer

Research by F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina is at the heart of a recent U.N. report that the ozone hole is closing

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UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology launches Climate and Urban Sustainability Program

Program goal is to solve complex environmental challenges

UCI professor describes how to develop a circular electronic device, e-waste economy

Closing the persistent gap between the benefits of electronic devices and their toxic waste requires innovations in natural resource recovery, regulatory policies and consumer participation, according to Oladele Ogunseitan, UC Presidential Chair and UCI professor of population health and disease prevention. In an article recently published online in the journal One Earth, he discusses how […]

Decarbonization leads to more equable air quality in California

UCI study shows how climate mitigation options would affect health of various communities

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Earth guardians

UCI researchers seek solutions to the many effects of climate change

Emissions tied to the international trade of agricultural goods are rising

UCI-led study shows the global shift of land-use greenhouse gas emissions

Connie Valencia

For Connie Valencia, this research is personal

The public health doctoral student’s dissertation looks at the community impacts of air pollution in her home neighborhood of Boyle Heights

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UCI Podcast: Bringing science to White House policy making

During her government fellowship, Ann Marie Carlton is seeking to use data to reduce pollution from agriculture

Michael Méndez

UCI’s Michael Méndez to lead press conference at UN climate change summit

Event will focus on California’s efforts to advance environmental justice