climate

Deficit in Western United States found to be of increased intensity in recent years

Analyzing radiocarbon dating on a massive database of soil samples from around the world, University of California, Irvine researchers have determined that globally, the average age of the carbon in the ground is about 5,000 years old. In a study published today in Nature Geoscience, a team led by Zheng Shi, UCI postdoctoral scholar in […]

UCI Earth system science professor is an expert in the ocean carbon cycle

U.N.-sponsored Earth School will help children learn about environment

Existing, planned fossil fuel-burning infrastructure must be retired early, replaced

To make better predictions about future wildfires around the world, climate scientists want to know the prevalence and intensity of past outbreaks. For a study published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Melinda Nicewonger, a UCI graduate student in Earth system science, examined ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica to measure changes […]

Burning of peatlands in Borneo and Sumatra created severe air pollution in region

Temperature increases during dry periods outpace average climate warming

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

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