In the week after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, Twitter suspended some 70,000 accounts, citing their role in spreading misinformation that was fueling real-world violence. A new study led by UCR's Kevin Esterling finds the move had an immediate and widespread impact on the overall spread of bogus information on the social media site.
It’s hard to fathom that there’s an upside to air pollution. But it’s becoming clear that, paradoxically, cleaning up tailpipes and smokestacks comes with a price for the planet. A study led by UCR climate scientist Robert Allen shows that as we cut polluting emissions of aerosols such as sulfur dioxide, scientists are uncovering the myriad ways these tiny, sunlight-reflecting particles have been taking some of the sting out of global warming.
A study led by UCR climatologist Robert Allen reveals a startling paradox: reducing air pollution could lead to an increase in forest fires, particularly in the vast boreal forests of the northern hemisphere.
The sharks we know today as the open ocean's top predators evolved from stubby bottom dwellers during a dramatic episode of global warming millions of years ago, according to a new study led by UCR doctoral candidate Phillip Sternes and Professor Tim Higham.
UCR environmental scientist Jade Sasser’s new book focuses on the racial dimensions of eco-anxiety. Among her findings: Women of color are likelier to say climate change will make them have fewer children than they want.
Joelene Tamm, a graduate student at UC Riverside, estimates that back in 2013 there were about 20,000 to 30,000 oak trees in Southern California killed by the goldspotted oak borer. She said that number has now jumped to more than 80,000 dead oak trees as the invasive pest marches to the north.
A new poll shows most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders believe U.S. schools should teach about issues related to race. The results indicate that efforts to politicize education through culture war issues have not gained strong inroads in Asian American communities, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a public policy professor at UCR, and founder of AAPI Data.
Reducing aerosol pollution, without simultaneously cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions, could lead to more and worse wildfires across the Northern Hemisphere, according to research led by UCR climatologist Robert Allen. Using an intricate climate model, the study researchers found that imposing strict air quality standards, while continuing to pump out carbon dioxide and methane, could significantly boost boreal fire activity in Canada, Russia, Alaska, and parts of Europe.
Joelene Tamm, a graduate student in entomology who studies the goldspotted oak borer, says the beetle could spread all the way through California and into Oregon.
UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane is prinicpal investigator of NASA's TESS-Keck Survey which contains detailed measurements of 126 newly discovered planets outside our solar system. One of the alien planets includes a Super-Earth so close to its star that one year on it is equivalent to half an Earth day.
UCR entomologist Erin Wilson-Rankin, who has studied invasive social wasps for nearly 20 years, says they eat everything, including caterpillars, aphids, flies, the whole gamut of arthropods.
Chow-Yang Lee, a UCR urban entomologist Likewise, says scientists have long suspected that the Asian cockroach is actually the ancestor for the German cockroach, but he is excited to read a new paper demonstrating that this is true.
In this New York Times story, UCR evolutionary biologist David Reznick weighs in on a study that determined the number of calories a woman must expend to grow a baby inside of her body.
In this Wall Street Journal story, professor of public policy Bruce Babcock weighs in on the "reprieve" two years of heavy rains and an ample snowpack have delivered to Western bodies of water including the Great Salt Lake.
UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane led the discovery of a planet in a faraway star system that appears to be erupting with so many volcanoes, it glows a fiery red when seen from space. No planet like this has ever been observed before, researchers say.
UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane found a roiling-hot exoplanet billions of miles away that is dotted with so many volcanos that it would visibly glow in the darkness of space.
Simon Groen, assistant professor of evolutionary systems biology at UCR, says that parasitic worms in a person's brain cause more problems when they start to die than when they are alive. That’s when a lot of molecules are released from the parasite cells that trigger an innate immune response, inflammation, and neurological disorders like seizures.