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climate change

Decarbonization leads to more equable air quality in California

UCI study shows how climate mitigation options would affect health of various communities

UCI researchers awarded $7.5 million for environmental justice initiative

NSF funding will support diversification, community engagement in Earth system science

UCI chemists receive $25 million in Department of Energy funding

Researchers will explore new technologies for energy conversion, carbon capture and nuclear power

UCI’s Kathleen Treseder wins climate change award from British Ecological Society

Prize recognizes contributions to understanding the role of fungi in ecosystems

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UCI Podcast: Solutions That Scale

James Bullock discusses multidisciplinary organization working to counter the impacts of climate change

Study shows how restoring overstocked forests can yield multiple, diverse benefits

Mechanical thinning of California’s forests can reduce the severity of wildfires by eliminating built-up vegetation that fuels blazes. According to researchers at UCI, UC Merced and the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, scientifically based forest management practices could also curtail CO2 emissions from fires, promote carbon storage in remaining trees, and improve the […]

UCI undergrad advocates for equitable climate solutions before the New Zealand Parliament

Jonpaul Cohen, a native New Zealander who has family on the Pacific islands of Samoa and Tuvalu, is passionate about protecting Polynesian culture, lives and livelihoods from the ravages of climate change. In a presentation to an environmental committee of the New Zealand Parliament on Aug. 4, the UCI undergraduate majoring in psychology advocated for […]

Astrophysicist Gregory Benford

Addressing climate change: plants instead of plants?

Rather than an industrial solution to excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, a retired UCI physicist looks to nature

Benis Egoh, UCI assistant professor of Earth system science

Seeing the forest through the trees

Three questions with Benis Egoh, UCI assistant professor of Earth system science, who explores arboreal ecosystems

Shyla Raghav stands in field of yellow flowers

A captain for the planet

Alumna Shyla Raghav is a leading global advocate on climate change mitigation and adaptation