Special Report: Clearing the Air

Clearing the Air

Welcome to this special report highlighting clean and sustainable energy research at the University of California, Irvine. As UC Irvine was being established in the mid-1960s, its leaders envisioned an institution designed with an architecture – both figuratively and literally – to address emerging environmental consequences of the industrial age. In those early days, Scott […]

A glacier in a fjord in Greenland.

Grounding zone discovery explains accelerated melting under Greenland's glaciers

UC Irvine researchers suggest we may be underestimating severity of sea level rise

Richard Matthew (left), UCI professor of urban planning and public policy, Alec Glasser (center), founder and CEO of The Drake Gives and Jon Gould (right), dean of UCI’s School of Social Ecology.

The Drake Gives contributes $1.5 million to UC Irvine's Power of Music initiative

New School of Social Ecology effort will leverage music for social good

Parry’s Phacelia, a plant with purple flowers, native to Southern California, grows beneath burnt brush.

Study finds drought fuels invasive species after wildfires

UCI biologists highlight critical link between drought, wildfires and coastal ecosystem transformations

In 1970, two men work in UCI’s information and computer science department.

How UCI and AI go waaay back

The campus began exploring artificial intelligence in the mid-1960s

Stacey Nicholas, UCI trustee.

Stacey Nicholas donates $5 million to UC Irvine to further boost diversity in STEM

Gift from UCI Foundation trustee will create Women and Engineering Program

Greenland is dotted with frozen meltwater lakes such as the one above, photographed during a NASA expedition in 2012.

Ice sheet surface melt is accelerating in Greenland and slowing in Antarctica

UC Irvine-led researchers identify contributions of downslope winds and ozone layer

UC Irvine scientists reveal what fuels wildfires in Sierra Nevada Mountains

The work could help improve California’s wildfire management efforts

Snow field with the ITEX snow fence at Toolik Field Station in Alaska.

UC Irvine scientists say deepening Arctic snowpack drives greenhouse gas emissions

Insulating effect of deeper snow is thawing ancient carbon permafrost reserves

Brett Sanders, UCI engineering professor.

UCI shares $1.5 Million NSF award to address inequities in flood adaptation

Brett Sanders will collaborate on three-year project flood modeling in Miami-Dade County