‘Timebomb’ balloon spotlights global warming
A 31-foot balloon in the shape of a cartoon timebomb was gradually inflated in an Irvine business park Wednesday, part of a test of a new campaign meant to call attention to global warming. Though...
View ArticleScientists: more Calif. heat waves by 2020
A heat wave drove crowds to Huntington Beach in June, 2008. Register file photo by Eugene Garcia. Strings of days when temperatures spike over 100 degrees should become more frequent in California by...
View ArticleIn new film, UCI prof warns of water crisis
UC Irvine Earth System Science professor Jay Famiglietti. Photo by Daniel A. Anderson, UC Irvine. Water supplies are dwindling around the world, and a rapidly changing climate will likely make the...
View ArticlePhotos: What are the hottest places on Earth?
Ask about the hottest places on the planet, and you’ll likely get the standard answers: Death Valley, California, or, from the weather obsessed, perhaps El Azizia, Libya. And while those answers...
View ArticleUCI: Heating soil could worsen warming
UC Irvine doctoral researcher Francesca Hopkins at a soil sampling site. She found a strong release of carbon when soil is warmed, which could worsen global warming. Warming forest soil in mid to high...
View ArticleL.A., O.C. 4-5 degrees hotter by midcentury?
Thousands hit Huntintgon Beach on the last full day of spring Tuesday. A new study says temperatures throughout the region could rise an average of 4 to 5 degrees by the middle of the century....
View ArticleWildfire, heat wave: Is it climate change?
Image from NASA's Terra satellite shows Horse Creek Fire, part of the Ash Creek Fire Complex in Southeastern Montana. Image courtesy NASA/JPL. As wildfires devour acreage across the West and a heat...
View ArticleU.S. drought sets record
More of the nation is in the grip of drought than at any time in the past 12 years, including over half of the contiguous United States, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The National Drought...
View ArticleWarmest 12 months on record for lower 48
The contiguous United States just wrapped up its warmest 12-month period ever recorded, though it’s something of an anti-climax: The previous 12 months ending in May also set a record, as did the 12...
View ArticleNASA: Arctic ice cover is smallest on record
Sun setting over the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea as seen from a research ship in 2011. Photo courtesy Kathryn Hansen and NASA. Arctic sea ice has dwindled to the smallest extent recorded in three decades of...
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