Earth System Science

Professor Kathleen Johnson featured on the Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcast.

Insulating effect of deeper snow is thawing ancient carbon permafrost reserves.

UC Irvine, CU Boulder researchers find that better efficiency leads to more consumption

The model could help countries around the world estimate storm impacts and costs.

Stalagmites used to characterize precipitation over tens of thousands of years.

Jane Baldwin at the University of California- Irvine brings the disagreement between the physiologists and the epidemiologists, as the lead author of the report.

The amount of land scorched by wildfires in Northern and Central California has increased fivefold in the last two decades and nearly all of that increase can be attributed to human-caused climate change. 

Reporter David Nazar with Sustaining US on PBS visits Dr. Jack Brouwer with the University of California Irvine for this simple electric car tutorial.

 Now, a groundbreaking report titled “Microbes in Models: Integrating Microbes into Earth System Models for Understanding Climate Change,” released by the American Academy of Microbiology, sheds light on a previously overlooked aspect of climate change: microorganisms.

Under climate change, moist heat stress is expected to worsen public health outcomes.

New research warns that nearly 800,000 residents would need emergency medical care for heat stroke and other illnesses in an extended power failure. Other cities are also at risk.

A shocking study of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland by researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has revealed a previously unknown interaction between ice and ocean.