Climate Change

Nov 24, 2021
Xin’s work seeks to solve a problem plaguing electric vehicles: their lithium-ion batteries can ignite. 
Nov 18, 2021
UCI study links rising temperatures to higher blaze risk.
Nov 17, 2021
Rising summer temperatures could lead to an exponential increase in the number of wildfires and acres burned in the Sierra Nevada in California, researchers have found.
Nov 17, 2021
The research adds to a growing body of work finding that climate change is increasing fire risk in California and elsewhere in the West.
Nov 10, 2021
Critics of renewable energy have often said that they wouldn’t be able to replace fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
Nov 5, 2021
UCI-led team analyzes options for filling the gaps in generation.
Nov 3, 2021
Davis ran a study looking into the cost of wildfires, which was published in the journal Nature Sustainability.   According to Davis, “It’s not just relegated to California, there’s places…
Nov 1, 2021
Physical Sciences SciComm Fellow Bryant Pahl interviews new UCI climate scientist Jane Baldwin.
Oct 27, 2021
Chinese emissions rose substantially while those in Europe and the U.S. remained lower.
Oct 20, 2021
The work, done by scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UCI, reveals the surprising role of icy mélange.
Oct 14, 2021
The center will foster research at the intersection of Earth science, physics and data science.
Sep 30, 2021
UCI Department of Earth System Science Ph.D. alumnus Dave Valentine discovers something sweet.