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Study shows health and socio-economic costs extended far beyond burned areas

A University of California, Irvine-led team has received $3.6 million over three years for a project that uses science and engineering to help California fight wildfires. The funding comes from the University of California Laboratory Fees Research Program competition, a contest designed to promote the development of multicampus projects and collaborations that advance the missions […]

UCI-created AI tool for predicting blaze size proves successful in Alaska; team now focuses on California

New technique could help authorities conduct triage in multiple-blaze scenarios

UCI, other researchers examine differences between summer, Santa Ana fires

This year’s wildfire season could be a rough one in already ravaged Amazon rain forests, according to new predictions by UC Irvine and NASA scientists.

Prediction method could help protect rainforests around the globe.

Raging wildfires that engulfed Southern California earlier this decade not only destroyed neighborhoods laying in their path, they also caused significant health problems for many who lived outside the fires’ reach.

Aaron Byzak, a health care executive MBA student at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, met President Bush (pictured)…

Brush fires this week in northeast Irvine prompted many calls to campus asking if classes would be held Monday. Such…