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

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...

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.

Tommy Stone is a fourth-year PhD student studying applied ocean science at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San ...

Ask any scuba diver what it’s like to experience a kelp forest underwater, and they’re likely to wax poetic about the magic found beneath the canopy.

Marine chemistry PhD student studies how pollution impacts San Diego’s coastal ecosystems and communities Aurora Czajkowski (AC): I chose to attend Scripps because it’s a fantasy land and I can surf ...

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 ...