Climate Change
Mar 19, 2022
Under a crescent moon, a Baja California treefrog wades among rushes and water hyacinth in San Felipe Creek — a wetland along the western edge of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park that researchers fear could be rapidly shrinking as the climate changes.
Mar 10, 2022
Ice-ocean interactions are accelerating melting into Amundsen Sea Embayment.
Mar 7, 2022
Satellites spot troubling signals that may portend a transformation from rainforest to savanna, with profound implications for the planet.
Mar 7, 2022
The region is nearing a threshold beyond which its forests may be replaced by grasslands, with huge repercussions for biodiversity and climate change.
Mar 2, 2022
The Earth System Science postdoc works to ensure her science informs policy makers.
Feb 22, 2022
Yang’s work involves collaborations in California and across the country.
Feb 15, 2022
Distinction is awarded to assistant professors in Earth system science, mathematics.
Jan 28, 2022
They join a list that includes scientists like Thomas Edison.
Jan 4, 2022
While the sheen from the major oil spill in October in Orange County has dissipated, some local scientists are taking a deep dive into how the spill may have affected some microscopic creatures.
Dec 15, 2021
Chemistry Ph.D. student Allie Zito works to make technology that can pluck planet-warming carbon dioxide straight out of the air.
Dec 5, 2021
As earth-observing satellites, aircraft and ocean buoys churn out ever-rising amounts of information about our planet, data managers turn to cloud computing and artificial intelligence
Nov 29, 2021
Two UCI grad students are researching the impact of the recent OC oil spill on some of the tiniest of marine organisms: phytoplankton.