KEYWORD

climate change

El Niño could drive intense season for Amazon fires

UCI, NASA analysis suggests higher risk than previous drought years

UCI sleuths search the seas for soot

Oceangoing study characterizes dark, sunlight-absorbing compound

Food for thought

Five takeaways from the campus summit on sustainable solutions

Mallory Hinks

Pitch perfect

UCI’s Mallory Hinks places second in UC-wide Grad Slam finals

Even plant-supporting soil fungi affected by global warming, UCI study finds

Ecologically rich mountain cloud forests impacted by drying climate

UCI expert among group urging accelerated reduction of greenhouse gas emissions

Article in Nature Climate Change casts doubt on carbon-capture technologies

Solar panel installation

UCI joins over 200 campuses in climate pledge

UCI was among more than 200 university and college campuses that signed the American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge today at the White House to demonstrate support for strong climate action by world leaders. With less than two weeks until President Barack Obama attends the climate change conference in Paris, the U.S. administration is building […]

Laureate lectures

Nobel Prize recipient Mario Molina returns to UCI to talk about the history of climate change science

Amir AghaKouchak

Hydrological hat trick

UCI water and drought expert Amir AghaKouchak gets work published in three major journals within two weeks

This map of ocean surface temperatures shows how warm waters in the North Atlantic fueled Hurricane Katrina.

UCI, NASA researchers find link between Amazon fire risk, devastating hurricanes

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines. The climate scientists’ findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters near the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s calamitous August 2005 landfall at New Orleans.