Tag: pollution

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

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...

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UCI Receives $1 Million from CDC/ATSDR to Study PFAS Contaminated Drinking Water and Health

September 30, 2019 – The University of California, Irvine was awarded $1 million by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to participate in the first year of a major multi-site health study to investigate the relationship between drinking water contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and health outcomes.  Under the agreement, UCI researchers will conduct an investigation in...

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Jeffrey Reed Appointed Advanced Power and Energy Program Chief Scientist, Renewable Fuels and Energy Storage

Highly regarded engineer and strategist will focus on the research, development and deployment of sustainable energy solutions Jan. 3, 2018 – Jeffrey G. Reed, until recently the director of business strategy and advanced technology for the Southern California Gas Company, will join UC Irvine’s Advanced Power and Energy Program as chief scientist for renewable fuels and energy storage. In his new role, Reed will lead and expand an existing foundation of research and market...

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Chemists find new way to recycle plastic waste into fuel

Approach tackles most commonly used synthetic plastic Irvine, Calif., June 21, 2016 – A new way of recycling millions of tons of plastic garbage into liquid fuel has been devised by researchers from the University of California, Irvine and the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in China. “Synthetic plastics are a fundamental part of modern life, but our use of them in large volume has created serious environmental problems,” said UCI chemist Zhibin Guan. “Our goal through this...

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UCI receives $700,000 EPA grant to study climate change, air quality

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded UCI $701,304 to study the impact of climate change on air quality. “This grant offers an exciting opportunity to learn about air pollution in the future from both state-of-the-art experiments and computer modeling techniques,” said Donald Dabdub, UCI professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering. “We know that both ammonia and organic compounds will be emitted more strongly in the future, and this can bring about new chemical reactions,...

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Jessica Yu’s ‘Last Call at the Oasis’ Made Her a Water Activist

Jessica Yu’s ‘Last Call at the Oasis’ is a feature-length documentary on water waste, water quality and water manipulation around the world. Making the film turned her into a water activist. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times If you want to say that Jessica Yu burst onto the film scene in 1993 with her short “Sour Death Balls,” you’d be almost literally right. The film is almost 10 minutes of people trying to handle the disgusting confection. Yu’s...

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Movie Review: ‘Last Call at the Oasis’ Smartly Sounds Alarm on Water

Jessica Yu provides a thorough examination of our dwindling water supply. The time to panic is now. Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times “Last Call at the Oasis” is a playful title for a film that couldn’t be more deadly serious. A thorough examination of the epic crises threatening the world’s water supply, crises that few people are paying attention to, this documentary tells you to be afraid, very afraid. Because the water situation is so dire, it has been examined...

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Science Study Author? Fresh From High School

Pat Brennan, The OC Register An Orange County man is co-author of a new UC Irvine study that offers precision analysis of smoke plumes from tropical burning — a feat in itself, because he began the work as a 17-year-old high school student. Alex Krolewski, now a 19-year-old freshman at Harvard University, says he simply thought it would be “cool” to do some scientific research while in his junior year at University High School in Irvine. So, after combing through departmental...

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Gases Drawn into Smog Particles Stay There, UCI-Led Study Reveals

Finding could explain why air pollution models underestimate organic aerosols Janet Wilson, UC Irvine Today Airborne gases get sucked into stubborn smog particles from which they cannot escape, according to findings by UC Irvine and other researchers published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The results could explain a problem identified in recent years: Computer models long used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California air regulators...

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F. Sherwood Rowland, UCI Nobel Laureate, Has Groundbreaking Climate Research on Exhibit

Matt Coker, OC Weekly ​An exhibition celebrating the research contributions of Nobel laureate and UC Irvine chemistry professor F. Sherwood “Sherry” Rowland opens this evening in the Langson Library at UCI. Ralph J. Cicerone, the National Academy of Sciences president who was UCI’s dean of the School of Physical Sciences when Rowland shared the Nobel for Chemistry in 1995, and university Chancellor Michael Drake will share remarks at a 6 p.m. reception, which is followed...

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