Climate Change
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Friday, November 10, 2023Nov 11: Eating fossil fuels, sea stars get a head, right whale diet and more…
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation covers new research from Professor Steve Davis in the Department of Earth System Science. -
Monday, November 6, 2023California scientists suggest a strategy to ‘eat our way’ out of the climate crisis
Commercializing the production of synthetic dietary fats could relieve pressure on a global agricultural sector that is struggling to decarbonize, a new study has found. -
Tuesday, November 7, 2023Farm-free food: Why depend on photosynthesis for everything we eat?
“Such ‘food without the farm’ could avoid enormous quantities of climate-warming emissions while also safeguarding biodiverse lands that might otherwise be cleared for farms.” -
Monday, November 6, 2023UC Irvine-led science team shows how to eat our way out of the climate crisis
Researchers explore the benefits of producing farm-free food. -
Thursday, November 2, 2023Antarctica’s glaciers are melting from beneath, speeding sea-level rise
Hidden rivers of meltwater are decaying Antarctica’s glaciers from beneath, a new study has found — meaning sea levels are likely rising faster than scientists had feared. -
Wednesday, October 4, 2023UC Irvine alum receives 2023 MacArthur “genius grant”
A. Park Williams to use funding to study climate change and its connection to droughts, wildfires. -
Thursday, October 26, 2023NASA funds UC Irvine-led mission to record changes in Antarctica’s ice sheet
Researchers will use data from upcoming and existing international satellite missions. -
Tuesday, October 24, 2023West Antarctic ice sheet faces ‘unavoidable’ melting, a warning for sea level rise
Thwaites glacier is showing quickening ice losses, but has thus far only contributed a few millimeters to sea level rise since the late 1970s, according to data shared by UCI’s Professor Eric Rignot. -
Monday, October 16, 2023Ice sheet surface melt is accelerating in Greenland and slowing in Antarctica
UC Irvine-led researchers identify contributions of downslope winds and ozone layer. -
Sunday, October 1, 2023Large trees fueled massive Calif. wildfire that killed giant sequoias
The researchers believe the large-diameter fuel produced longer flames and caused the fire to jump to the forest canopy. -
Friday, September 29, 2023Welcome to the UCI School of Physical Sciences: Chloe Selby
Undergraduate Earth system science major Chloe Selby talks about navigating life as an anteater. -
Monday, September 25, 2023UC Irvine scientists reveal what fuels wildfires in Sierra Nevada Mountains
The work could help improve California’s wildfire management efforts.

