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UCI study links rising temperatures to higher blaze risk.

Rising summer temperatures could lead to an exponential increase in the number of wildfires and acres burned in the Sierra Nevada in California, researchers have found.

The research adds to a growing body of work finding that climate change is increasing fire risk in California and elsewhere in the West.

The research adds to a growing body of work finding that climate change is increasing fire risk in California and elsewhere in the West.

Rising summer temperatures could lead to an exponential increase in the number of wildfires and acres burned in the Sierra Nevada in California, researchers have found.

Pahl, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth System Science, followed the stars to get to UCI. 

Critics of renewable energy have often said that they wouldn’t be able to replace fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.

Critics of renewable energy have often said that they wouldn’t be able to replace fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.

UCI-led team analyzes options for filling the gaps in generation.

Davis ran a study looking into the cost of wildfires, which was published in the journal Nature Sustainability.   According to Davis, “It’s not just relegated to California, there’s places…

Climate change is making wildfires in the western United States larger and more destructive, and the effects are felt across the country, according to a study by Steve Davis, a professor of Earth systems science at the University of California Irvine

Physical Sciences SciComm Fellow Bryant Pahl interviews new UCI climate scientist Jane Baldwin.