Scientists compared the 2016 high-resolution aerial lidar survey with a new 2023 survey conducted by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and found that, in some cliff retreat hotspots, ...

Scripps Oceanography geologist co-chaired national committee of experts scouting locations for possible crewed moon landings The four recommended locations offered chances to understand the ...

From heat-related illness and deaths to lost work hours and higher insurance and utility bills, climate change is already affecting California’s economy. A new statewide report in California’s Fifth ...

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. “Diving in a kelp forest is unlike any other ...

As the academic year kicks off, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego welcomes a new wave of faculty members working to understand and protect the planet and train the next generation of ...

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) ...

Scripps Oceanography experts explain phenomenon, why this event is likely to be a very strong El Niño, and how these events are detected NOAA declares an El Niño when temperatures in the equatorial ...

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 ...