Climate Change

An accidental discovery in UCI Distinguished Professor Larry Overman’s lab in the 1970s helped define his research direction and legacy.

The new fellows research everything from solutions to climate change through chemistry to cancer treatments through mathematical modeling.

Climate change is already leaving unprecedented marks on forests. In the Sierra Nevada, up to 19 percent of adult giant sequoias, many of which have stood since the days of Aristotle, died in fires in just the last two summers. Five of the eight most abundant tree species in the West have declined significantly just since the year 2000. Using satellite data, archival records, and machine learning, Jon Wang, at the University of California, Irvine, determined that California likely lost…

Q&A with Class of 2022 graduate Erin Araneta, B.S. in chemistry.

After completing her Ph.D. in applied physics in Italy in 1999, Isabella Velicogna came to the U.S. in the hopes of landing a post doctoral position. Her efforts proved fruitful and she landed a dream job – working at the University of Colorado in Boulder on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) project. The mission involved using satellite data to assess the Earth's water systems, including changes in its ice…

KUCI's Keven Bossenmeyer interviews the Ph.D. students studying last October's OC oil spill.

When a pipeline break in October leaked thousands of gallons of oil into the waters off of Huntington Beach, the visible harm to local wildlife was almost immediate, as crude-covered birds and fish began appearing on beaches.

CO2 levels are skyrocketing.

The award recognizes the Ph.D. student’s work to understand climate change impacts in southern California.

UCI researchers reconsider carbon storage with improved climate models, satellite data.

We don't know exactly what a net-zero-emissions energy system will look like, but we know enough to keep us busy for at least a decade.

The northern U.S. city has some of the most polluted air in the country.