climate change

UCI study also finds megacities affected most by uptick in extreme-heat events

Conservation of shoreline plants and seaweeds could, in turn, help preserve shellfish habitats

Waning influence of once-telling weather patterns altered by global warming skews projections

Enhanced monitoring tool adds groundwater storage to assessment factors

Susan Trumbore, UCI professor of Earth system science, is one of eight 2018 recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth & Environmental Science, bestowed by the Franklin Institute. She was cited for her “pioneering use of radiocarbon measurements in forests and soils to assess the flow of carbon between the biosphere and atmosphere, with implications […]

Melting polar ice is causing sea levels to rise around the world, but how much of an increase will the future bring, and where? These are the key questions to be addressed by Isabella Velicogna, UCI Earth system scientist, as a recently named member of NASA’s Sea Level Change Team. She and her research group […]

Landforms ‘self-organize’ to withstand human and natural disturbances

Indicators of global climate change are detected in tropical oceans

Industrial farming disrupts burn-regrowth cycle in grasslands, study finds

Extreme lightning storms are the main driver of recent massive fire years in Alaska and Canada, and these storms are likely to move farther north with climate warming, potentially altering landscapes, according to findings in Nature Climate Change by researchers from UCI, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and elsewhere. Analyzing satellite images and data from ground-based networks, […]