Climate Change

Undergraduate students Kumalie Wijesekare and Cynthia Abuede on their fieldwork in Vietnam.

The seal and robot helped scientists find a climate change disaster waiting to happen in one of the most mysterious regions on Earth: vast glaciers in West Antarctica.

New research in the northern part of Greenland finds temperatures are already 2.7 degrees warmer than they were in the 20th century.

Earth system science professor teaches first session of climate change course from Antarctica.

The heavy inundation of rain is likely preventing mass die-offs in forests.

Research by F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina is at the heart of a recent positive U.N. report

For Californians, a classic El Niño means big waves, white mountains and lots of rain, just like the phenomenon's opposite, La Niña, has been serving up.

Deep overturning circulation collapses with strong warming.

In Southern California, automobile emissions are the biggest source of carbon dioxide in the air. But during the pandemic, when there were fewer cars on the road, those levels decreased.

UCI leading globally with their campus-wide solutions-that-scale initiative—developing and cultivating transdisciplinary energy and environmental solutions that scale globally in response to climate change; interweaves the entire campus ecosystem: research and education from each academic unit of 14 UCI schools, personal engagement from the student body, and a living-lab exploration within the city-sized community. 

UCI researchers’ results could help cities curb future greenhouse gas emissions.

Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal.