Earth System Science

Jan 27, 2021
One of President Joe Biden’s first post-inauguration acts was to realign the United States with the Paris climate accord, but a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine…
Jan 25, 2021
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have for the first time quantified how warming coastal waters are impacting individual glaciers in Greenland’s…
Jan 18, 2021
Future climate change will cause a regionally uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt – a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the equator – according to researchers at the University of…
Jan 8, 2021
A video dispatch from the Amazon rainforest.
Dec 7, 2020
Study shows health and socio-economic costs extended far beyond burned areas
Nov 25, 2020
Velicogna, a glaciologist, has spent her career unraveling the dynamics of glaciers.
Nov 25, 2020
A chat between three Earth system scientists about the state of climate science
Nov 18, 2020
This month, you’ll be hearing about Native Americans at the School of Physical Sciences, and how they make the School what it is.
Nov 17, 2020
Climate change. It’s something we know a lot about — but what about the things climate scientists still don’t fully understand about the way the climate change works, and how it’s going to…
Oct 14, 2020
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 14, 2020 — An international team of climate experts, including Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine, today released an assessment of carbon…
Oct 9, 2020
Burning natural gas produces roughly half the carbon dioxide of coal, which is why policymakers across the political spectrum have long billed it as a “bridge fuel” to a safer climate.  But new…
Oct 8, 2020
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 8, 2020­ – An international team of researchers – including Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine – recently completed the most thorough review yet…