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UCI Podcast: The legal fallout of the Orange County oil spill

UCI Environmental Law Clinic Director Michael Robinson-Dorn asks whether the benefits of offshore oil drilling in Southern California are worth the cost

artistic colorful hands, for Building Solidarity With Communities

Building Solidarity With Communities

UCI researchers across campus take an inclusive, collaborative approach to working in local areas

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UCI Podcast: Uncovering the cause of the soil lead crisis in Santa Ana

UCI historian Juan Manuel Rubio partners with environmental justice groups on research

Victoria Lowerson Bredow, right, with Connie McGuire

Research solidarity with communities

Newkirk Center fellowship program teaches interdisciplinary graduate students a more collaborative, inclusive way to engage with groups they study

Bri Bri Finley, a UCI postdoctoral scholar in ecology & evolutionary biology, and team members make their way through mustard plants to their research plots on Loma Ridge.

Fieldwork for a better future

UCI partners with Irvine Ranch Conservancy for climate change adaptation study of plant and microbial ecosystems on Loma Ridge

Greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions are lengthening and intensifying droughts

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

Kim Kanatani, director of UCI’s Institute and Museum of California Art, admires “Tree of Life,” by Carlos Almaraz, a pioneer in the Chicano art movement.

Keeping up appearances

Works at UCI’s Institute and Museum of California Art are restored in anticipation of reopening gallery

Antibody screening finds COVID-19 nearly 7 times more prevalent in O.C. than thought

UCI, OC Health Care Agency lead state’s first study to widely test representative sample of residents

Pandemic lockdowns caused steep and lasting carbon dioxide decline

New assessment from UCI, other institutions used near-real-time data to track emissions

Michael Méndez, UCI assistant professor of urban planning & public policy

What's next: The future of environmental justice

As with the coronavirus, low-income communities of color are most affected by unsustainable practices