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UC San Diego Launches New Graduation Requirement, Bolstering Climate Change Education

Rolling out this fall, the Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement honors the memory of beloved professor, climate champion

Domoic acid producing Pseudo-nitzschia diatom in seawater sample. Image:  G. Jason Smith / Moss Landing Marine Labs. Satellite image shows increasing chlorophyll concentration at California coast. Image: Mati Kahru

Scientists Discover Molecular Predictors of Toxic Algal Blooms

Genes that act as warning beacon for dangerous neurotoxin identified

College students looking at coral specimens in a research aquarium

UC San Diego Recibe $10 Millones para un Centro de Neurobiología en Ambientes Cambiantes

El Centro se enfocará en los impactos del cambio climático en los sistemas nerviosos de animales marinos

College students looking at coral specimens in a research aquarium

UC San Diego Receives $10 Million for Center on Neurobiology in Changing Environments

Center will focus on the impacts of climate change on marine species’ nervous systems

Scripps Student Spotlight: Raymond Leibensperger III

PhD student in climate sciences with notable awards and fellowships researches sea spray aerosols

McWhorter on a fieldwork assignment during her PhD in the Chagos Archipelago diving a nearly uninhabited archipelago and collecting coral samples for calcium carbonate budgets.

Charting Change from Coral Reefs to Climate Science

Scripps alum Jennifer McWhorter supports the Biogeochemical Argo array in the Gulf of Mexico to understand the region’s changes over time

San Diego Bay on a clear day

Oyster Virus Detected in San Diego Bay Likely Worsened by Warmer Waters

Higher water temperatures accelerate spread of deadly virus, killing Pacific oysters and threatening aquaculture operations

a scuba diver surveys a coral reef in clear blue water off Maui

3D Models Provide Unprecedented Look at Corals’ Response to Bleaching Events

Seven-year time series pinpoints which corals off Maui survived multiple bleaching events

winch on a research vessel

Scripps Researchers Address Ocean Paradox With 55 Gallons of Fluorescent Dye

Large-scale ocean circulation requires deep water to rise to the surface, but this upwelling had never been directly observed – until now

Marine stratocumulus clouds off the California coast. Photo: Pascal Polonik

Artificial Climate Controls Might Become Ineffective – Because of Climate Change

Cloud brightening cooling strategy stops working in models when natural systems respond to relentless warming

Trinidad Head AGAGE station which contributes N2O measurements. Photo: Backyard-Photography/istockphoto

Study Finds Nitrous Oxide Emissions Grew 40% over 40 Years, Accelerating Climate Change

Study Finds Nitrous Oxide Emissions Grew 40% over 40 Years, Accelerating Climate Change

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Jungfraujoch station in Switzerland, which was used to make measurements in this research. Photo: Jungfrau.ch

Research Signals Milestone in Cutting Gases that Deplete Ozone Layer

Development also a step toward climate change mitigation

A rainbow frames NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory, located on the Big Island of Hawai’i, in this 2021 photo. Photo: Brian Vasel, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory

During Year of Extremes, Carbon Dioxide Levels Surge Faster than Ever

Two-year increase in Keeling Curve peak is largest on record

UC San Diego-Led Science Teams Selected as Finalists for NASA Science Missions to Understand Our Changing Climate

Each team will receive $5 million to conduct concept studies for new satellites

USCGC Healy supporting Ice Station Operations

Discovering the Mysteries of the Arctic

STARC program probes key influence on global climate

A house tented for termites in San Diego's Rancho Bernardo neighborhood. Photo: Thomas De Wever

California Leads U.S. Emissions of Little-known Greenhouse Gas

State emits more than rest of country combined, new study finds

Astronomical regulator used for precision timekeeping manufactured in 1867. Photo: Daderot/Wikimedia Commons

Global Warming Is Influencing Global Timekeeping

One consequence is giving society a few extra years to prepare for a potential Y2K-style glitch

Ship tracks as seen from the NOAA-20 satellite on April 24, 2019. Photo: NOAA NESDIS

How To Determine if a Potential Geoengineering Strategy Could Work?

Scientists detail research needed to assess viability, risks of marine cloud brightening

On Mount Soledad in La Jolla, ARM radars and a variety of guest instruments collected data during EPCAPE, sometimes from within hovering banks of marine clouds.

EPCAPE Observations at Scripps Pier, Mt. Soledad Wrap Up

Marine cloud-aerosol campaign now enters a phase of energetic data analysis

Canal ditch in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Canals Used to Drain Peatlands Are Underappreciated Hotspots for Carbon Emissions

The study found that one-third of the organic carbon leached from peatland soils into canal waters gets broken down and released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide

A drying lake near Ensenada, Mexico, 2019. Photo: Photo Beto/istockphoto

Study: Projected Changes in Extreme Precipitation Over Northern Mexico

Study finds that this understudied region may experience significant climate changes, impacting agriculture, the economy and infrastructure

Fire bears down on Los Angeles. Photo: ekash/istockphoto

Extreme Heat, Wildfires Combine to Disproportionately Harm Less Affluent and Communities of Color

California ZIP code-scale survey exposes need for rethinking of public policy, say researchers

Larsen A embayment in the Antarctic Peninsula

New Paper Pinpoints Key Role of NASA Satellites in Monitoring Earth's Vital Signs

All-woman team of researchers shows how 20 years of laser-based observations have improved our understanding of a changing planet

A researcher leads a group of citizen scientists in Antarctica.

Scripps Scientists Journey to Antarctica to Study Key Climate Questions and More

Scripps Oceanography researchers are investigating Earth’s climate history, ice loss, phytoplankton, and marine food webs this field season

Ecosystem Benefits to Humanity Expected to Decline by Nine Percent by 2100

Nature’s Benefits to Decrease as Climate Change Shifts Ecosystems Across Borders

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