UCR environmental toxicologist Aleksandra Karapetrova collected snow at sites in the Sierra so remote they could only be accessed by skiing to them. She found detectable levels of microplastics everywhere she went.
Andy Crosby, a professor at UCR's School of Public Policy, appeared on Sacramento NBC affiliate KCRA to discuss polling accuracy ahead of the midterm elections.
Michael Allen, soil ecologist and UCR professor emeritus, showed that gophers helped revive ground made barren by the eruption of Mt. St. Helens volcano in 1980 by transporting helpful microbes. He may repeat the experiment to learn whether gophers can similarly help other environmentally damaged sites.
UCR, which offers a higher education opportunity in a prison in Riverside County, will expand to a second prison in the Inland Empire in the coming years.
UCR bioinformatics graduate student Ryan Bruellman finds that having a dollar story nearby is linked to higher rates of obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
UC Riverside's innovative STEAM program is getting younger students excited about everything from insects to artwork, while inspiring them to pursue college and career paths along the way.
Wei Liu in Earth and Planetary Sciences, and his doctoral student Mohima Mimi, find the slowdown of the AMOC in the Atlantic has disturbing implications for California, and the world's climate.
For a long time, scientists have taken one fact for granted: fungi and moss don’t establish symbiotic relationships with each other (moss would be the only major lineage of land plants with that trait). Kian Kelly and Jason Stajich from UCR's Microbiology and Plant Pathology Department authored a new study showing that in fact, they do form relationships.
According to a new paper by philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel of the University of California, Riverside, and Jeremy Pober of the University of Lisbon, if consciousness exists beyond Earth, it could take forms we can’t even imagine, and it might not even inhabit anything we’d recognize as a body.
Alaska's Arctic rivers have a big, orange problem. Excessive amounts of iron are getting into the water and it's killing insects and fish. UCR biogeochemist Tim Lyons was part of a crew that figured out exactly how this is happening, and how to predict where it'll happen next.