Climate Change

Chemistry Ph.D. student answers questions about her research on the chemical transformation of pesticides. 

UCI glaciologist Eric Rignot broadcasted live from Greenland to answer questions about everything from ice sheets to climate change.

Their research aims to find chemical solutions for climate change problems.

Lightning in the Arctic used to be so vanishingly rare that people could go their whole lives without seeing a flash. But as the region warms rapidly, it may become more common—with effects that…

THE ARCTIC ISN’T doing so hot. That’s because it is, in fact, too hot. It’s warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the planet, which is setting off vicious feedback…

Tool helps to track abrupt yet temporary emissions declines during pandemic.

Over the course of 2019 and 2020, hundreds of fires burned in the tundra of Siberia, releasing stores of carbon similar to the entire annual emissions of France. As the Arctic continues to warm,…

This week, a story about lightning strikes the news world.

UCI-led team reports that an increase in lightning will drive both wildfires and warming above Arctic Circle.

W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at UCI is helping the La Brea Tar Pits make sense of its fossils.

Department of Earth System Science helped spearhead NASA’s Operation IceBridge — the largest-ever airborne polar science mission, which ended in 2020 after 11 years.

Professor Sanchez-Yamagishi will use the award to explore materials at atomic scales — and to make room for surprises, too.