For the first time, researchers have mapped the population structure of silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) in the ...

The 120-mile Tijuana River flows from Baja California into the United States and discharges millions of gallons of wastewater ...

Justin Funa is a student in the Master of Advanced Studies program in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (MAS MBC) at ...

A special symposium honoring Margaret Leinen, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and her contributions to the field of oceanography was held at the Scripps Seaside Forum ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography to receive a four-year, $10 million grant funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to establish ...

Data about Mars’ planetary crust gathered from the Mars InSight lander are best explained by the conclusion that the crust has stores of liquid water. Analysis led by Vashan Wright, a geophysicist at ...

While seeking to unravel how marine algae create their chemically complex toxins, scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have discovered the largest protein yet identified in ...

Iceland’s most recent volcanic episode on the Reykjanes peninsula, set to last centuries, began with vast magma pooling just beneath the surface Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...