The National Academy of Sciences issued Oct. 21 an independent report commissioned by NASA recommending four potential crewed lunar missions and outlining their scientific value.

From heat-related illness and deaths to lost work hours and higher insurance and utility bills, climate change is already ...

United Nations COP31 event in Türkiye seeks to foster more substantial ocean-based action to address risks posed by climate change As in years past, the Ocean Pavilion will serve as the voice of the ...

Scientists do not have an ability to predict when earthquakes will occur, but a team announced today a major step toward ...

In the deep sea, it never stops snowing. The type of snow that falls in the ocean, known as marine snow, is very different ...

Coral reefs are renowned for their visual beauty, but for the marine life they support, their sounds may be just as enticing. Two new studies led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

Advances in computing power helped scientists create a method for dating pottery purported to be ancient. The method takes advantage of the fact that the firing and cooling of clay materials creates a ...

El Niño is a climate pattern that is declared when monthly sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean are measured above normal, for at least five consecutive ...

Image caption: Scripps meteorologist Chad Hecht releases a weather balloon into an atmospheric river making landfall in Marysville, Calif. The Pacific Ocean’s El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ...

Image caption: The coastline looking south from San Francisco in Sept. 2024 taken during a topographic lidar survey of the California coastline led by the Scripps Air-Sea Interaction Lab. El Niño is ...

Blood Falls has long been one of Antarctica’s strangest landmarks: a red-stained outflow that spills from the face of Taylor Glacier into the cold, dry landscape of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The color ...

Following a four-year study of San Diego County coastal cliffs, Scripps Oceanography scientists found that a network of in-ground sensors can provide a reliable warning of impending, dangerous ...