University of California San Diego today announced the appointment of Meenakshi Wadhwa to the position of Vice Chancellor for ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Coral reefs, like research communities, face disturbances, but their response to major change determines their perseverance.

Fish make hanging motionless in the water column look effortless, and scientists had long assumed hovering was a type of rest ...

Marissa Saenger is a fourth-year PhD student studying climate sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego ...

Tuna, opah, and billfishes such as marlins and swordfish are among the 0.1% of fish species that are warm-blooded. Evidence ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In 2024, the yearly average level of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) rose faster over the prior year than ever before in the 67-year-old Keeling Curve record.