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Indian family with clean-burning cookstove. Photo: Tanvi Mishra

Study: Barrier to Widespread Use of Clean Cookstoves Surmounted

Project Surya effort to improve public health and slow pace of global warming provides rural women in India access to results-based climate financing

Research Highlight: What are You Doing this (Austral) Summer?

On the eve of a new summer in Antarctica, Scripps among the world’s largest science contingents on frozen continent

Former Scripps graduate student Yuichiro Takeshita with BEAMS on Palmyra coral reef

Research Highlight: Automated System Advances Study of Chemical 'Pulse' of Coral Reefs

New California Law to Curb Climate Pollutant Emissions Based on Scripps Science

Calif. Governor Jerry Brown signs into law country’s toughest restrictions on methane, soot, refrigerant emissions; a “lifeline” to planet’s 7 billion people, says Scripps researcher

Global climate model representation of California elevations (left) compared to LOCA

New, High-Resolution Climate Projections Aim to Better Represent Extreme Events

BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge honorees

Photo of the Week: Ramanathan and the Frontiers of Knowledge

Photo of the Week: Dogs of the Antarctic Sun

Beach erosion at La Jolla Shores

Scientifically, This Was Still a Monster El Niño Year

Matthew Siegfried. Field photo by Oliver Marsh, Gateway Antarctica

What Lies beneath West Antarctica?

Arctic Ocean melt ponds. Photo: Karen Frey/Clark University

From the Field (in Photos): Exploring an Antarctic Fjord

mangroves

New Study Shows Desert Mangroves Are Major Source of Carbon Storage

Arctic Ocean melt ponds. Photo: Karen Frey/Clark University

Upside-Down "Rivers" Threaten Antarctic Ice Shelves

Tidewater Goby Photo: Brenton Spies

Around the Pier: Endangered Fish Find Temporary Refuge From El Niño at Birch Aquarium at Scripps

CO2 Emissions in 2014. Image: Global Carbon Project

Around the Pier: Record Annual Increase of Carbon Dioxide Observed for 2015

CO2 levels increasing at a faster rate than before

NOAA's yearly sea-surface temperature difference from average for 2015.

El Niño 2015-2016

Ross Sea phase sensitive radar system

Study Finds High Melt Rates on Antarctica's Most Stable Ice Shelf

Veerabhadran Ramanathan. Photo: Glenn Marzano

Scripps Climate Scientist Recognized for Pioneering Work by Spanish Foundation

Infographic courtesy of NCAR

Flying Lab to Investigate Southern Ocean's Appetite for Carbon

AWARE team members at the ARM Mobile Facility, Antarctica

AWARE: The Most Comprehensive Meteorological Study of Antarctica Ever Undertaken

Scripps Oceanography Climate and Atmospheric Scientist V. Ramanathan and other researchers met with Pope Francis in 2014.

Religion and Climate Change

Photo of the Week: Antarctic Radar

From the Field: Chilean Tsunami Rocks Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf

Around the Pier: Bending the Curve

Waves reach Highway 101 north of Solana Beach, Calif. in 2010.

Citizen Science Will Help Assess Effects of El Niño

Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown with Scripps Oceanography climate scientist V. Ramanathan at UC Carbon Neutrality Summit, Oct. 27

Photo of the Week

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