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![Marine stratocumulus clouds off the California coast. Photo: Pascal Polonik](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2024-06/800-pascal_2.jpg?itok=HfelqbZ7)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2024-06/800istock-1166158910.jpg?itok=lDVKdIO5)
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
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A Scientist’s Life: Clarissa Anderson
Biological oceanographer predicts ocean hazards and creates a more informed public
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DDT Pollutants Found in Deep Sea Fish off Los Angeles Coast
As the region reckons with its toxic history of offshore dumping, the new findings raise troubling questions about whether the banned pesticide remains a threat to wildlife and human health
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CENIC Awards AI Fire-Detection Tool an “Innovations in Networking” Award for Innovations in Public Safety
The award recognizes exemplary people, projects, and organizations that leverage high-bandwidth networking
![A drying lake near Ensenada, Mexico, 2019. Photo: Photo Beto/istockphoto](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2024-02/lutsko-mexico-istock-1135716924_0.jpg?itok=d9di2dgi)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2024-01/laskyline-fire.jpg?itok=5E4PLkMt)
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
![Green-tinged image of a barrel-shaped object sitting on end on ocean floor.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2024-01/picture1.jpg?itok=m9ITMhqe)
Second Seafloor Survey of Dumpsite off Coast of Southern California Completed
Researchers mapped 135 square miles, found high volume of discarded military munitions
![Flooding in Sunamganj in the Sylhet Division of northeastern Bangladesh in June 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-12/istock-1405188020.jpg?itok=GpLIcdqs)
Three Decades of Data In Bangladesh Show Elevated Risk of Infant Mortality In Flood-Prone Areas
The findings reveal the long term public health burden of environmental hazards that are predicted to worsen under climate change
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New Report Confirms Benefits of FIRO Strategy in Enhancing Water Management at Prado Dam
Improved atmospheric river forecasts show to enable more groundwater storage
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UC San Diego’s Scripps Oceanography Awarded Funding to Develop Pathogen Forecast Model
Model aims to predict presence of harmful pathogens in Tijuana River Valley and Imperial Beach
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A Scientist's Life: Alice Gabriel
Seismologist uses supercomputing to break down complexity of earthquakes
![Due to liquefaction of the ground during the Turkey earthquake sequence, this building broke from its foundation and fell on the building behind it.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-08/turkeyquake800.jpg?itok=-LD9DWXM)
The Unexpected Physics Behind Turkey’s Devastating 2023 Earthquakes
The findings could have important takeaways for assessing seismic hazards in California
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Fighting Climate Change Isn’t an Automatic Win for Environmental Justice
Some simulated pathways for reducing emissions in the U.S. maintained or exacerbated existing racial inequities
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A Scientist’s Life: Wenyuan Fan
Seismologist seeks to understand why some earthquakes are more predictable than the others
![Researchers at center of photo conduct fieldwork at Salton Basin. Photo: Ryley Hill](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-06/800-saltonsea-fialko.jpg?itok=jL4fbwjr)
California’s Salton Sea May Be Staving Off Earthquakes As It Disappears
Major earthquakes on southern San Andreas Fault apparently triggered by Salton Sea basin filling with water
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“Segment-Jumping” Ridgecrest Earthquakes Explored in New Study
Seismologists use supercomputer to reveal complex dynamics of multi-fault earthquake systems
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ALERTCalifornia Launches to Provide Essential Tools to Understand and Adapt to Natural Disasters
UC San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia public safety program leverages novel technology and cutting-edge research to understand the causes, behavior and aftereffects of wildfires and other natural disasters in the Golden State
![Elephant in Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, Africa](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-03/p1010094.jpg?itok=CEShDUVR)
After Devastating Wildlife Loss, Scripps Chemical Oceanographer Searches for Connection Between Water Resources and Wildlife
A photo essay from Botswana, Africa
![Polluted waters off Imperial Beach. Photo: WILDCOAST](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-03/wildcoast_tj_slough800.jpg?itok=-DnJqUBp)
Coastal Water Pollution Transfers to the Air in Sea Spray Aerosol and Reaches People on Land
Scientists find bacteria, chemical compounds from coastal water pollution in sea spray aerosol along Imperial Beach
![A WC-130J Super Hercules aircraft from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron sits on the flightline prior to an atmospheric river mission Jan. 28, 2020 at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. The Hurricane Hunters performed “AR recon” from January through March 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-11/hurricanehunter-2020arflight.jpg?itok=P0QQWFb4)
Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Flight Season Gets an Early Start this Winter
Air Force and NOAA aircraft collecting data over the Pacific from November to March
![Trematodes Centrocestus formosanus (left) and Haplorchis pumilio](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-11/trematode.jpg?itok=Qw7PJ8hi)
Parasites Associated with Eating Fish Showing Up in Southern California Fishing Locales
Snail that hosts potentially dangerous flatworms found to be widespread
![Isabel Rivera-Collazo in the field in Puerto Rico](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-10/siocomm_a_puertorico2018_001.jpeg?itok=_VXPYDB-)
Scripps Launches Two Projects on the Impact of Climate Change on Coastlines and People
National Science Foundation grants support research hubs in Southern California and Puerto Rico
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UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography Awarded $5.6 Million for Southern California DDT Ocean Dumpsite Research
NOAA funding will aim to further characterize, monitor, and research dumpsite
![Flooding overtops Fremont Weir, 2019. Photo: Florence Low/California Department of Water Resources](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-08/800-fl_fremont_weir-0933_03_01_2019.jpg?itok=jFKYzojH)
Climate Change Projected to Increase Atmospheric River Flood Damages in the United States
Damage costs in western states could triple by end of century
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