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Up-trending farming and landscape disruptions threaten Paris climate agreement goals

Written on January 27, 2021.

UCI-led team tracked global land-use greenhouse gas emissions from 1961 to 2017 January 27, 2021 — One of President Joe Biden’s first post-inauguration acts was to realign the United States with the Paris climate accord, but a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine demonstrates that rising emissions from human land-use will jeopardize the agreement’s goals without substantial changes in agricultural practices. In a paper published today in Nature, the...

Improved land management project co-led by UCI gets $4.6 million in state funding

Written on February 6, 2019.

Data science will help identify best practices to preserve California’s forests, wildlands Irvine, Calif., Feb. 6, 2019 – California’s Strategic Growth Council recently approved $4.6 million for a project led by the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Merced to develop new tools and methods for better managing the state’s forests and wildlands. The Innovation Center for Advancing Ecosystem Climate Solutions is a three-year project with the goals of improving...

UCI scientists analyze first direct images of dissolved organic carbon from the ocean

Written on June 5, 2018.

Joint research project furthers understanding of important CO2 reservoir Irvine, Calif., June 5, 2018 – In a first, researchers from the University of California, Irvine – as well as Switzerland’s University of Zurich, IBM Research-Zurich and UC Santa Cruz – have obtained direct images of dissolved organic carbon molecules from the ocean, allowing better analysis and characterization of compounds that play an important role in the Earth’s changing climate. Using an atomic force microscopy...

Climate warming shifts lightning-caused forest fires farther north

Written on June 26, 2017.

Extreme lightning storms are the main driver of recent massive fire years in Alaska and Canada, and these storms are likely to move farther north with climate warming, potentially altering landscapes, according to findings in Nature Climate Change by researchers from UCI, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and elsewhere. Analyzing satellite images and data from ground-based networks, they discovered increases of 2 to 5 percent a year in lightning-ignited fires since 1975. In addition, the scientists...

Chasing clean air

Written on June 3, 2013.

Led by Donald Blake, UCI scientists have been on a decades-long global quest to measure atmospheric pollution Conditions couldn’t be worse. The air is dead, not a leaf stirring on the trees lining the dusty Mexican highway. Farmers are burning grapevines, garbage and weeds. Acrid smoke billows upward, then settles like a grimy blanket across miles of hills. Exhausted after driving since 2 a.m. from suburban Irvine to this northern Baja stretch, UC Irvine atmospheric chemist Tai Chen ’87,...

Warming Will Unlock Carbon in Forests, Study Warns

Written on June 11, 2012.

Felicity Barringer, The New York Times Climate scientists have long been concerned about the possibility that warming temperatures will speed changes on the earth’s surface that will in turn accelerate global warming. The best illustration of such a feedback loop involves the melting of sea ice in the Arctic. The ice reflects solar radiation back into space rather than absorbing it. When it melts, it leaves open water that absorbs the heat rather than reflecting it. The more warm water there...

Clearing the air

Written on June 1, 2009.

Kathryn Bold, University Communications In ways that have altered nearly every aspect of campus life, UC Irvine has reduced the energy needed to keep the place humming, serving as a model for other large organizations seeking to shrink their carbon footprints. “Environmental stewardship at UCI began long before we even heard the words ‘green,’ ‘LEED,’ or ‘carbon-neutrality,’” says Wendell Brase, vice chancellor of Administrative and Business Services. “UCI started its first vanpool...

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