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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
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Sep 3, 2021
UC Irvine Earth System scientists prepare to head to the Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe to study the fire's smoke. 
Photograph of Ph.D. student Audrey Odwuor sampling a smoke billowing.
Sep 3, 2021
Fires are burning in the West. The Caldor Fire in Lake Tahoe is making what you breathe more smoke than air, forcing thousands to evacuate. Find out what some scientists from the UCI Department of…
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Sep 2, 2021
Professor Emeritus William “Bill” S. Reeburgh, a founding professor of UCI’s Department of Earth System Science (ESS), died on July 9, 2021. He was 81.Born February 25, 1940 in Port Arthur, Texas,…
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Sep 1, 2021
"We have to remember that it took decades to reduce Amazon deforestation, but it may take just a few years to destroy the conservation policy pillars of conservation," said co-author Paulo Brando,…
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Sep 1, 2021
Combining extensive species mapping with remote sensing records of deforestation and fire reveals that the Amazon's biodiversity is extraordinarily vulnerable to changes in forest management and policy enforcement. 
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Aug 2, 2021
Professor Emeritus William “Bill” S. Reeburgh, a founding professor of UCI’s Department of Earth System Science, died on July 9, 2021. 
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Jul 22, 2021
UCI study: Higher heat will limit ecosystem’s role in removing atmospheric CO2.
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Jul 12, 2021
Researchers looked at the greater Anza-Borrego area, but similar long-term trends are found elsewhere.
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Jul 10, 2021
Hello Borrego Springs. This is a wake-up call. Living in Borrego and the amazing Sonoran Desert that surrounds the community, you probably thought the desert was heat tolerant and immune to global warming. Hey, it’s already a desert, how bad can it get?
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Jun 24, 2021
Since the 80's, plant life in the Anza-Borrego Desert in East San Diego County has died off by 35 percent according to a study from UC Irvine. The study's culprit? Major droughts and climate change. 
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Jun 23, 2021
Climate change is causing plants to die off in massive numbers in Southern California’s deserts and mountains, UC Irvine researchers have found.
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Jun 22, 2021
Desert plants — famous for tolerance of torrid landscapes — are dying at an alarming rate due to the twin threats of even hotter temperatures and less rain, according to new research published this week.