climate

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

Earth system scientist is honored for climate change studies

Katherine Mackey, UCI’s Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Earth System Science, has been awarded a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship in ocean sciences for her pioneering work in marine biogeochemistry. Each year since 1955, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded two-year fellowships to 126 promising early-career scientists in the U.S. and Canada. Nominated by […]