Earth System Science
Jan 12, 2023
The heavy inundation of rain is likely preventing mass die-offs in forests.
Jan 11, 2023
Human activity has damaged this protective layer of the stratosphere, but scientists say the ozone layer is on track for recovery.
Jan 10, 2023
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.
Jan 4, 2023
Deep overturning circulation collapses with strong warming.
Dec 23, 2022
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.
Dec 22, 2022
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.
Dec 14, 2022
UCI researchers’ results could help cities curb future greenhouse gas emissions.
Dec 1, 2022
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.
Dec 1, 2022
Jados helps our scientists make the most out of their grants.
Dec 1, 2022
Meet the Physical Sciences staff member in charge of designing and building laboratories and much, much else around the school.
Nov 29, 2022
Satellite images since 1986 show that land set aside for protection is performing much like land that isn't protected. Companies claiming offsets are skating by.
Nov 27, 2022
Jessica Walden and Chris McGuire, owners of Amis de la Terre Zero-Waste Market, want to give people a way to stem plastic pollution.