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Thinning of rift-healing slush is identified as a major cause of iceberg calving events

Loss of vegetation cover is most stark in desert ecosystems already on edge of habitability

Climate model predictions made more precise through use of NASA GRACE satellite data

UCI and NASA JPL scientists study impact of warm, salty water beneath glaciers

Long-lived greenhouse gas could hinder international climate goals, researchers say

UCI scientists quantify impact with NASA satellite data and simulations

UCI, NASA scientists assess ice sheet with potential to raise global sea levels nearly 5 feet

UCI, NASA JPL project tracking Earth-sensing satellite turnover yields striking results

UCI astronomer Paul Robertson recently celebrated “first light” for NEID, a new exoplanet hunting instrument he helped develop. Installed at the 3.5-meter WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, NEID is an extremely precise radial velocity spectrometer. Its initial observations were of 51 Pegasi, a sunlike star that, in 1995, was […]

UCI glaciologists play key roles on international assessment team