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UCI expert among group urging accelerated reduction of greenhouse gas emissions

Written on December 8, 2015.

Article in Nature Climate Change casts doubt on carbon-capture technologies Irvine, Calif., Dec. 8, 2015 – At the beginning of week two of the Paris climate talks, an international group of scientists is calling on the world’s industrial powers to aggressively and immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions, stressing that overreliance on so-called negative emissions technologies may prove too costly and disruptive to keep Earth from overheating. In an article published today in Nature...

Grad Student Wins MIT Contest

Written on November 12, 2015.

Nov. 12, 2015 – Environmental engineering graduate student Daniel Howard won MIT’s Energy Solutions for Latin America contest, hosted by MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, with a project that analyzes which mix of energy sources provides the lowest total commercial, environmental and health costs for society. This approach allows countries to focus on development while minimizing climate change, air pollution and health impacts. Howard presented his work, “Electricity at the lowest...

UCI to Co-lead $50 Million Water-energy Research Consortium

Written on October 5, 2015.

US-China collaboration also will include 4 other UC campuses, university lab Oct. 5, 2015– The University of California, Irvine will be part of a five-year, multimillion-dollar, international research consortium tackling water-related aspects of energy production and use, the U.S. Department of Energy has announced. The partnership, led by UC Berkeley in collaboration with UCI, includes the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Davis, UC Merced, UCLA, and the Boston-based nonprofit SEI...

Hot, Dry and Human-caused

Written on August 26, 2015.

UCI and other scientists say Californians must learn to live within the state’s new climate Aug. 26, 2015 – California’s current extreme drought must be a lesson for managing water in a warmer, more densely populated world, say UCI and fellow drought experts writing in the journal Nature. Civil & environmental engineer Amir AghaKouchak, political scientist David Feldman and ecology & evolutionary biologist Travis Huxman call for greater recognition of the role...

UCI: We’re the coolest

Written on August 11, 2015.

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row Cathy Lawhon, UCI Irvine, Calif., Aug. 11, 2015 – If it’s cool you want, look no further than the University of California, Irvine. For the second year in a row, the campus is No. 1 in Sierra magazine’s annual “Cool Schools” ranking of the nation’s greenest colleges. It’s the first time any university has repeated a No. 1 appearance and the sixth year UCI has placed among the top 10. “We’re thrilled that...

Economic slump, not natural gas boom, responsible for drop in CO2 emissions

Written on July 21, 2015.

The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession – not the reduced use of coal, research from the University of California Irvine, the University of Maryland, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis shows. Brian Bell, UC Irvine Irvine, Calif., July 21, 2015 – The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013...

Greenland’s fjords are far deeper than previously thought, and glaciers will melt faster, researchers find

Written on July 14, 2015.

West Greenland’s fjords are vastly deeper than rudimentary models have shown, allowing intruding ocean water to badly undercut glacier faces, which will raise sea levels around the world much faster than previously estimated, a UCI-led research team has found. Janet Wilson, UC Irvine West Greenland’s fjords are vastly deeper than rudimentary models have shown, allowing intruding ocean water to badly undercut glacier faces, which will raise sea levels around the world...

Earth’s defender

Written on April 17, 2015.

Kathryn Bold | UCI Magazine Abigail Reyes divides her life into two parts, “B.T.” and “A.T.” – before Terence and after Terence. In February 1999, Terence Unity Freitas, an environmental activist and her “partner in work and love,” was kidnapped and murdered in Colombia. At the time, he was working to halt the plans of major oil companies to drill in territory occupied by the U’wa, an indigenous group. “[Because of] that experience, which occurred when I was in my mid-20s and a few years...

Rising waters

Written on June 9, 2014.

UCI students help coastal communities brace for climate change UC Irvine undergraduates Tristan Lanza and Enrique Uribe have been catching the bus regularly from campus down to Newport Beach to knock on doors. Lanza, 21, noticed the first time they neared the coast right where flooding would likely begin. Back in UCI’s Engineering Tower, graduate student Adam Luke, 23, pores over computerized hydraulic models that he has spent weeks constructing of the Tijuana River estuary straddling the...

A gamble of global proportions

Written on April 28, 2014.

UCI’s Michael Prather is a lead author on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. The cherry blossoms came earlier than normal this year in Yokohama, Japan. By the time delegates from 70 countries, including UC Irvine’s Michael Prather, met to finalize another stark assessment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, rain had whipped many of their delicate pink petals to the ground. Like much of the planet’s plant life, the iconic spring flowers bloom a week...

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