As summer kicks into high gear on the Fourth of July, Netflix is releasing a new series highlighting the beauty, importance ...

Some corals produce chemicals called diterpenoids that have shown promise in fighting cancer and reducing inflammation, but researchers have been unable to study the chemicals in depth. The problem is ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were able to ‘hear’ the impacts of a marine heatwave and even economic slowdowns by analyzing 15 years of ...

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 ...

This bluegill collected during the study contained 16,973 Haplorchis pumilio and 8 Centrocestus formosanus infectious trematode parasite larval stages. Photo: Emma Palmer. The study identified two ...

The 120-mile Tijuana River flows from Baja California into the United States and discharges millions of gallons of wastewater — including sewage, industrial waste and runoff — into the Pacific Ocean ...

Coral larvae settling on substrate coated with SNAP-X. Image from Coral Reef Ecophysiology and Engineering Lab.. Scientists have long known that certain types of crusty algae, known as crustose ...

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 ...

The devastating fires in Los Angeles have numerous secondary effects as scientists are finding out now off the coast of Southern California.Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

This year’s rainy season is underway, which means atmospheric rivers are set to dump rain and snow across California and the Pacific Northwest. It also means that specially outfitted aircraft are ...

A coastal research and monitoring program led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been awarded a five-year, $40 million award from the United States Army Corps of Engineers ...

This academic year, UC San Diego will welcome more than 7,000 first-year undergraduate students who are expected meet the new Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement.Pictured above, Scripps ...