University of California, Irvine

UCI-led team reports that an increase in lightning will drive both wildfires and warming above Arctic Circle.

In 2018, California wildfires caused economic losses of nearly $150 billion, or about 0.7 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire United States that year.

UCI researchers describe the role of ecophysiology in flooding. Adapting to CO2 overabundance, stomatal contraction results in less water being released from leaves.

A team of scientists at the University of California, Irvine has developed a model that can help forecast of a wildfire will be small, medium or large.

New research shows that a catastrophic forest die-off in California in 2015-16 was caused by a long drought spell that even dried out deep soil.

New research reveals that nearly a fifth of the world’s population lives in a stressed water basin where the next climate change-driven incident could threaten water access.

New research reveals that Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017. The accelerated melting caused global sea levels to rise more than half an inch during that time. As the Antarctic ice sheet continues to melt away, multi-metre sea level rise will occur in the coming centuries.

New research shows that dry months are getting hotter in large parts of the United States, another sign that human-caused climate change is forcing people to encounter new extremes. With temperatures during droughts rising faster than in average climates in recent decades, there is a higher risk of other calamities.