Wildfire risk will grow due to climate change, new research finds, but unhealthy controlled burns for farming are the leading type of blaze in the U.S. UC Irvine Earth system scientist Hsiao-Wen Lin found that such fires have increased by 30% nationally in the past decade, mostly in the south. Thanks to stricter air pollution regulations, California, Oregon and Washington have slashed their agricultural burn rates though.
Vast amounts of additional carbon would warm the atmosphere even more, leading to escalation of climate change.
Honor rewards operations, curriculum and research designed to mitigate climate change.
Exhibit to cover global warming and climate change, energy and alternative resources, water quality and more.
UCI study shows how birds, bats and lizards play their roles in preserving plant species in face of global climate change
Newkirk Center event brings together experts in law and public health to discuss environmental law, climate change and pollution in China.
Daylong workshop brings together experts from three Orange County campuses to outline possible solutions to climate change
Water expert Pat Mulroy will speak on “Climate Change and the American West: Can We Adapt?” at the second annual…
Global climate change – especially as it relates to glacial melting and rising ocean levels – is the subject of much debate and research. Eric Rignot, Earth system science professor, studies ice sheet melting in Antarctica and Greenland. He will talk about his work March 31 as part of the 2008-09 Discover the Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series.
Scientists and policymakers generally agree that solving the world’s most challenging social and public health problems – AIDS, climate change, cancer, obesity and global terrorism among them – requires collaboration among researchers across a variety of fields.