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A study led by UC Irvine researchers using 30 years of satellite data has shown that 23 percent of Antarctica’s ocean-reaching glaciers are undergoing rapid retreat. Worst hit are glaciers in the vicinity of the Amundsen Sea and Bellinghausen Sea in West Antarctica and glaciers in Wilkes Land in East Antarctica. Rignot research group / UC Irvine

Antarctica has lost 10 times the size of Greater Los Angeles in ice over 30 years

by UC Irvine March 2, 2026March 2, 2026

The sun sets over an expanse of greater Los Angeles that is occupied by one of the region’s many oil refineries, a source of carbon dioxide pollution. Study co-author Claudia Czimczik says, “Our method successfully captures these patterns, but we need to test it in other cities … to understand if it works as well in places where emissions are subject to more consistent wind transport, rather than the mountain and basin situation we see in Los Angeles.” Steve Zylius / UC Irvine

UC Irvine scientists devise method for cities to measure greenhouse gas emissions

by UC Irvine November 4, 2025November 4, 2025

Researchers with the UC Irvine-led study sample dust at the southern edge of the Salton Sea. Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health

Study links wind-blown dust from receding Salton Sea to reduced lung function in area children

by UC Irvine October 14, 2025October 14, 2025

The Airport Fire rages in the Santa Ana Mountains about 20 miles from the UC Irvine campus in September 2024. “The global paradox of decreased burn area and increased human impacts we uncovered … is due largely to an increasing overlap between human settlements and fire-prone landscapes,” says study co-author Amir AghaKouchak, UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of civil and environmental engineering. Amir AghaKouchak / UC Irvine

UC Irvine-led research team uncovers global wildfire paradox

by UC Irvine August 21, 2025August 21, 2025

Petermann Glacier drains about 4 percent of the Greenland Ice Sheet as it moves inexorably toward the Arctic Ocean. A new observation and modeling study shows that the glacier is more vulnerable than previously thought to the intrusion of warm ocean water on its underside, leading to accelerated melting and boosting the potential severity of future sea level rise. Eric Rignot / UCI

Grounding zone discovery explains accelerated melting under Greenland’s glaciers

by UC Irvine March 13, 2024March 13, 2024

Melting in a cast iron pan is a pat of butter derived through a chemical process. In Nature Sustainability study, Steven Davis, UCI professor of Earth system science, and his co-authors promote the idea of making dietary fats synthetically to help limit agriculture – and its adverse climate externalities – from our food supply chain.

UC Irvine-led science team shows how to eat our way out of the climate crisis

by UC Irvine November 6, 2023November 6, 2023

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National Academies report identifies ways to reduce intergenerational poverty in US

by UC Irvine September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

Through the creation of the Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network, interdisciplinary research teams from UCI, UCR and UCSD like this one will develop innovative strategies to identify, map and reduce climate risks in partnership with affected communities across Southern California.

UC Irvine leads regional project to reduce climate change risks in California

by UC Irvine September 6, 2023September 6, 2023

UC Irvine biologists find what colors a butterfly’s world

by UC Irvine August 14, 2023August 14, 2023

In October 2020, the Silverado fire illuminated the night sky above Orange County. In a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers -- including Amir AghaKouchak of UCI’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering -- say that nearly all of the increase in burned area from California’s wildfires in the past three decades is attributable to anthropogenic climate change. Amir AghaKouchak / UCI

Human-caused climate change to blame for increase in California’s wildfires

by UC Irvine June 12, 2023June 12, 2023

Steven Davis, UCI professor of Earth system science, led a study of carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires in recent decades. In a paper in the journal Science, he and his colleagues shared some shocking findings. “According to our measurements, boreal fires in 2021 shattered previous records. These fires are two decades of rapid warming and extreme drought in Northern Canada and Siberia coming to roost, and unfortunately even this new record may not stand for long,” he says. Steve Zylius / UCI

Wildfires in 2021 emitted a record-breaking amount of carbon dioxide

by UC Irvine March 3, 2023March 3, 2023

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, UCI Earth system science researchers and their collaborators at UC Riverside drove a mobile lab around Southern California to collect air samples. They found a significant drop in carbon dioxide emissions on the region’s freeways during that time, but the decline soon rebounded as more people took to the roads in the summer of 2021.

UC Irvine researchers find that carbon dioxide pollution dropped on California freeways during pandemic

by UC Irvine December 15, 2022December 15, 2022

The danger of radon gas in our homes

UCI-led study finds prolonged, low-level radon exposure still a leading cause of lung cancer

by UC Irvine June 14, 2022June 14, 2022

Dixie Fire footprint

Human-triggered California wildfires more severe than natural blazes

by UC Irvine June 6, 2022June 6, 2022

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Prospects for a democratic breakdown in the U.S.

by UC Irvine January 25, 2022January 25, 2022

Amal Alachkar, Ph.D.

UCI study could explain why Parkinson’s drug improves, then diminishes quality of life

by UC Irvine January 19, 2022January 19, 2022

The FASER particle detector that received CERN approval to be installed at the Large Hadron Collider in 2019 has recently been augmented with an instrument to detect neutrinos. The UCI-led FASER team used a smaller detector of the same type in 2018 to make the first observations of the elusive particles generated at a collider. The new instrument will be able to detect thousands of neutrino interactions over the next three years, the researchers say.

UCI-led team of physicists detects signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider

by UC Irvine November 24, 2021November 24, 2021

Wildfires have ravaged portions of the Sierra Nevada, such as this section along Route 41 south of Yosemite National Park, and UCI Earth system scientists expect the situation to get worse. In a new paper in Sciences Advances, the researchers say that for each 1 degree Celsius rise in temperature, the chance of fire jumps 19 percent to 22 percent.

Fires in the Sierra Nevada likely to grow in frequency

by UC Irvine November 18, 2021November 18, 2021

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Wind and solar could power the world’s major countries most of the time

by UC Irvine November 5, 2021November 5, 2021

Daniel Parker, UCI assistant professor of public health and the study’s corresponding author

UCI-led study finds disparities in O.C. rates of COVID-19 infection, mortality

by UC Irvine August 19, 2021August 19, 2021

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