You’re invited to attend an upcoming symposium celebrating the career of Scripps Professor Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan. The event, RamFest 2025, will take place on the Scripps Oceanography campus ...

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 ...

The bucket of preserved fish opens, but it doesn’t smell as bad as you might think. Like vinegar, with a hint of sardine. OK, maybe it’s bad, but if you’re Ben Frable, manager of the Marine Vertebrate ...

Image caption: Example munitions surveyed by the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) during the 2023 seafloor survey of the San Pedro Basin. Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego. See ...

A red tide offshore Southern California is bringing a spectacular display of bioluminescence to beaches at night. From glowing waves seen at several San Diego beaches to swirls of electric blue light ...

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) approved the preliminary design of a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid research vessel that will join the fleet at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

Racetrack Playa is home to an enduring Death Valley mystery. Littered across the surface of this dry lake, also called a “playa,” are hundreds of rocks – some weighing as much as 320 kilograms (700 ...

California Politics. Literature and the Environment. Natural Disasters. These are just a few of the courses at UC San Diego that will fulfill its new climate change education requirement—the first of ...

This summer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego welcomed a group of motivated undergraduate students from across the country who were selected to participate in the 2024 Jane Teranes ...

A team led by physical oceanographers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego shows in a new study how plumes of warm water are flowing into the Arctic Ocean ...

A promising brain cancer drug discovered from a deep sea ocean microbe by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego is making headway toward public use.

A team of researchers led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has discovered a new species of fish—a member of the eelpout family—that lives in the eastern Pacific Ocean off Costa ...