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CLIMATE CHANGE IS OVERHAULING MARINE NUTRIENT CYCLES, UC IRVINE SCIENTISTS SAY
The research is the first field-based confirmation of such climate impacts
A data visualization from the U.S. Carbon Monitor.
Apr 7, 2021
Tool helps to track abrupt yet temporary emissions declines during pandemic.
A photograph of a lightning bolt.
Apr 6, 2021
Over the course of 2019 and 2020, hundreds of fires burned in the tundra of Siberia, releasing stores of carbon similar to the entire annual emissions of France. As the Arctic continues to warm,…
Title section for In the News from UCI School of Physical Sciences.
Apr 6, 2021
This week, a story about lightning strikes the news world.
A photograph of a lightning bolt.
Apr 6, 2021
Climate change is driving the increase in Arctic lightning, creating a nightmarish positive feedback loop.
A photograph of lightning
Apr 5, 2021
UCI-led team reports that an increase in lightning will drive both wildfires and warming above Arctic Circle.
Photograph of Eric Rignot.
Mar 31, 2021
Department of Earth System Science helped spearhead NASA’s Operation IceBridge — the largest-ever airborne polar science mission, which ended in 2020 after 11 years.
A photograph of mammoth replicas at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum.
Mar 31, 2021
W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at UCI is helping the La Brea Tar Pits make sense of its fossils.
A photograph of clear skies
Mar 3, 2021
While 64 countries cut their fossil fuel emissions between 2016 and 2019, an international team of researchers, including an Earth system scientist at UCI, stressed that an even more pronounced…
Mar 3, 2021
UCI Earth system scientist Steve Davis part of international team evaluating global warming factors
A photograph of Raisha Lovindeer.
Feb 26, 2021
Before she was a UCI Ph.D. student in Earth System Science studying marine microorganisms, she played in steelpan bands and ran a theatre company in Jamaica.
Feb 26, 2021
Last June we shared a Commitment to Action in support of Black Lives Matter.
A photograph of Kelly Perymon.
Feb 26, 2021
UCI Earth System Science undergrad is fighting climate change on multiple fronts.