$5M gift will seed Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation.
UC San Diego |
Gift will launch Scripps climate center
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Climate change causes timing shifts in fish reproduction
Warmer ocean temperatures affect seasonal cycles, study finds.
UC Santa Cruz |
Temperature's rising beneath West Antarctic ice sheet
Research team reports first direct measurement of geothermal heat flow rising from deep within the Earth to the bottom of the ice sheet.
UC Davis |
California’s wildflowers losing diversity in face of warmer, drier winters
Similar trends have been found in other Mediterranean environments, such as those of southern Europe.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
New technique allows study of clouds in 3-D
Stereophotogrammetry provides a unique window into clouds, thus improving climate models.
UC Santa Barbara via The Conversation |
How climate change is making California’s epic drought worse
Studies suggest that climate change might give rise to a new climate regime, one in which the years of low precipitation will be accompanied by warm conditions.
UC Newsroom |
Art, science inspire student climate-change activism
37 students are awarded fellowships to work on projects that support UC's Carbon Neutrality Initiative.
UC Newsroom |
UC tackles California water security
Researchers forge strategies to accurately estimate snowpack, soil moisture and surface-water volumes, and improve monitoring of groundwater.
UC Davis |
Sea change: What took decades to destroy in oceans took millennia to recover
Ocean ecosystems that experience rapid upheaval because of climate change can take thousands of years to recover.
UC Newsroom |
UC Santa Barbara goes lights out to win energy conservation contest
All UC campuses participated in the Campus Conservation Nationals, which challenges students, faculty and staff at 186 university campuses to reduce energy and water use.
UC Santa Barbara |
Perfect storm of drought and unrest
A growing body of research suggests that extreme weather — using Syria as an example — increases the chances of violence, from individual attacks to full-scale wars.
UC Newsroom |
New UC projects target greenhouse gas emissions
Research and outreach efforts will help UC become first major university to achieve carbon neutrality.