Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a renowned climate scientist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Crafoord Prize — one of the world’s most ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

For the first time, a study from researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego ...

The Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program joins forces with research programs across the world to improve forecasts of extreme weather events “We know that better measurements of atmospheric rivers ...

Interdisciplinary center digs into soil health research, efforts to create a more sustainable and climate-resilient food system Experts across the University of California San Diego have come together ...

In 2020, haunting images of corroded metal barrels in the deep ocean off Los Angeles leapt into the public consciousness. Initially linked to the toxic pesticide DDT, some barrels were encircled by ...

Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography present a new tool the public can use to understand sewage contamination levels at beaches from Coronado to Playas de Tijuana as well ...

Fish make hanging motionless in the water column look effortless, and scientists had long assumed hovering was a type of rest. Now, a new study reveals that fish use nearly twice as much energy when ...

For the first time, the seasonal peak of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii, scientists from NOAA and ...

Researchers from several University of California campuses have collaborated to create a report on dust in California, a characteristic that defines the desert climate zone that encompasses most of ...

El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the Southwestern United States, respectively. In 2023, however, a La Niña year proved ...