UC San Diego |

Lake Tahoe research provides new insights on global change

Scripps scientists reveal how nitrogen is recycled in the ecosystem’s food web.
UC San Diego |

Change agent

Professor and National Geographic ‘Emerging Explorer’ sets out to address food production’s footprint on global climate change.
UC Davis |

Ocean acidification threatens coastal communities across the U.S.

Shellfish industry — especially mollusks — is at long-term risk in 15 states.
UC Newsroom |

Energy smack down Campuses compete to save electricity

Nine UC undergraduate campuses are going head to head as part of a national contest to conserve energy.
UC Santa Cruz |

Shrinking range of pikas in California mountains linked to climate change

Study documents disappearance of pikas from low-elevation sites and shows how ongoing global warming will further restrict their range in the future.
UCLA |

The heat's rising in cities

Geographer warns that for the past four decades, global warming — in the guise of heat waves — has been amplified in cities.
UC Berkeley |

Warmer, drier climate alters forests statewide

Botanists have compared tree survey data from the 1920s and ’30s with forest service data today. They find a decline in large trees and an increase in the density of small trees in forests throughout the state.
UC Newsroom |

UC making big moves toward carbon neutrality

Greenhouse gases emissions down to 1990 levels and major steps are initiated to ramp up renewable energy use.
UC Santa Barbara |

Oceans face wildlife loss

The same patterns that led to extinctions on land are now taking place in the sea.
UC Davis |

Study casts doubt on mammoth-killing cosmic impact

Whatever triggered the Younger Dryas cold period, it wasn't a comet or meteorite colliding with Earth.
UC Berkeley |

More lightning with global warming

Lightning strikes may increase by up to 50 percent in the U.S., caused by warmer temperatures associated with climate change.
UC Davis |

Newly found fossil fills evolutionary gap

A fossilized amphibious ichthyosaur — bearing both flippers and flexible wrists, descended from terrestrial creatures — has been discovered in China.