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environment

Person bicycling in Aldrich Park.

UCI is No. 9 on 2024 Princeton Review ranking of green schools

UCI also receives Honor Roll distinction

November 16, 2023
Melting in a cast iron pan is a pat of butter derived through a chemical process.

UC Irvine-led science team shows how to eat our way out of the climate crisis

Researchers explore the benefits of producing farm-free food

November 06, 2023
Jun Wu, Ph.D., UCI professor of environmental and occupational health

UC Irvine-led study links long-term air pollution exposure to postpartum depression in SoCal

Higher suicide risk for moms; infants may develop cognitive, emotional or other impairments

October 31, 2023
Clockwise from left: Assistant professor of education Symone Gyles, Professor of Civil & Environmental Enginnering Brett Sanders, Sara Ludovise with the OCDE, Associate professor of education Hosun Kang, and professor of education Rossella Santagata. The National Science Foundation has awarded an interdisciplinary team from the University of California, Irvine a three-year, $1.6 million grant focused on creating an accessible and equity-centered model for high school environmental engineering education intended to inspire and properly prepare students for careers in this field.

NSF funds UC Irvine project to improve climate science learning in high schools

Biological sciences, education and engineering schools team up to create curriculum

October 30, 2023
Greenland is dotted with frozen meltwater lakes such as the one above, photographed during a NASA expedition in 2012.

Ice sheet surface melt is accelerating in Greenland and slowing in Antarctica

UC Irvine-led researchers identify contributions of downslope winds and ozone layer

October 16, 2023

UC Irvine scientists reveal what fuels wildfires in Sierra Nevada Mountains

The work could help improve California’s wildfire management efforts

September 25, 2023
Pramod Khargonekar (left), UCI vice chancellor for research and UCI’s Chief Innovation Officer Errol Arkilic (right).

UCI launches climate action innovation hub with $1 million state grant

Program will leverage regional strengths to help California reach its climate goals

September 14, 2023
A photograph of two Mandarin oranges, one of which is rotting.

Curbing waste improves global food security but has limited environmental benefits

UC Irvine, CU Boulder researchers find that better efficiency leads to more consumption

July 24, 2023
Vojislav Stamenkovic

DOE awards $3.75 Million to engineering for research in clean energy technologies

Vojislav Stamenkovic is leading the clean energy technology research team

June 27, 2023
Alana LeBrón (left) and Jun Wu (right).

UC Irvine receives grant to study lead exposure effects on children’s learning, behavior

Santa Ana-based project continues past successful community-academic partnership

June 14, 2023