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 ...

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 ...

The cloudy, sediment-laden meltwater from glaciers is a key source of nutrients for ocean life, but a new study suggests that as climate change causes many glaciers to shrink and retreat their ...

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 ...

A team of international scientists is urging caution against five of the most-discussed polar geoengineering ideas, stating they are highly unlikely to help the polar regions and could harm ecosystems ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has named Mark Gold as the new director of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, the renowned ...

Staff member joins a cruise of opportunity aboard E/V Nautilus The six floats we deployed on this trip are part of the Global Ocean Biogeochemistry array (GO-BGC), funded by the National Science ...

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 ...

A new paper from an international team of more than 50 researchers, including four from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, proposes the creation of a global observing network of ...