News Briefs
Nov 26, 2019
Professors Steven Allison, James Bullock, Steven Davis, James Randerson, Eric Rignot, Isabella Velicogna and Jasper Vrugt have been named to the Highly Cited Researchers 2019 global list.
Nov 22, 2019
CO2 capture technology could decrease atmospheric CO2 to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Oct 28, 2019
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument aimed its robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic eyes at the night sky for the first time recently to capture images showing its unique view of galaxy light.
Oct 21, 2019
(CNN)-- While the ozone hole over Antarctica typically grows in September and October, scientists observed the smallest ozone hole since they first began observing it in 1982, according to a joint release by NASA and NOAA.
Sep 25, 2019
We can agree that wildfire is natural in western forests, and at the same time not want fires to burn down our houses. Some hard lessons have been learned about fire behavior in recent years.
Sep 25, 2019
We can agree that wildfire is natural in western forests, and at the same time not want fires to burn down our houses. Some hard lessons have been learned about fire behavior in recent years.
Sep 2, 2019
What if you could dip your water bottle into the ocean, let it sit in the sun for about an hour and then gulp it down? Revolutionary, right? That’s what Shane Ardo is working on in his lab at UC Irvine.
Aug 29, 2019
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — As the world has watched with fear and fascination the fires burning in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, satellite images show a far greater number of blazes on the African continent.
Aug 27, 2019
There is a doomsday scenario for the burning Amazon — the irreversible point at which the tropical land can no longer sustain itself as a flourishing, vital rainforest. What's less certain is exactly when that threshold, driven by a collapse in the climatic system that feeds the forest, will get crossed, though it may be quite soon. What's more certain, though, is humanity is speeding along on the tipping point interstate.
Aug 7, 2019
Alaska has seen the lowest levels of sea ice ever this summer as record temperatures and wildfires hit the region with some areas completely ice free — an event which has never occurred so early in the year and has ramifications for the arctic climate and the Earth as a whole.
Jul 26, 2019
On Friday, more temperature records are falling in Europe as the historic heat wave that brought the hottest weather ever recorded in Paris, London, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany shifts northward. In a few days, the weather system responsible for the heat wave will stretch all the way across the top of the globe.
Jul 26, 2019
Professors Eric Rignot, Tim Tait and Jenny Yang have been named recipients of the 2019 Academic Senate awards for research making the UCI School of Physical Sciences the only school on campus to win awards in the research category.