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Rise of Carbon Dioxide Unabated
Seasonal peak exceeds 417 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory
NOAA Selects UC San Diego to Host New Cooperative Institute to Study Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Systems
Selection awards $220 million over five years
New Course Aims to Bring Climate Change Solutions to Global Audience
Four-part series is first offering on the new UC San Diego Online platform
Scientists Identify Climate Change as Major Contributor to Record-Breaking Marine Heatwave
Scripps Oceanography team used a century of ocean data collected by the Shore Stations Program and new method of temperature analysis to put the 2018 marine heatwave in context
New Open-Access Book Casts Climate Change as a Public Health Crisis
Contributors to text co-edited by UC San Diego researchers range from Nobel Prize laureates to Pope Francis
Coronavirus Global Slowdown Is Cleaning the Skies. How Long Will It Last?
Scripps Oceanography climate scientists ponder what episode tells us about global warming
First Results from NASA’s ICESat-2 Mission Map 16 Years of Melting Ice Sheets
Team of scientists finds massive ice loss in West Antarctica
New Study Looks at How the “Blob” Came Back
Scripps Oceanography and CIRES scientists find that weak winds in the Pacific drove record-breaking 2019 summertime marine heat wave
Research in the Time of COVID-19
Despite a deserted campus, some essential Scripps research programs carry on
Listen Up: Scripps Scientists Use Underwater Microphones to Study Calving Arctic Glacier
Researchers develop new method for measuring glacial retreat by analyzing underwater acoustic recordings of icebergs falling into the ocean
Coastal Heat Waves Can Tax Public Health - Even Outside of Summer
Study of Southern California hospitalizations shows upticks attributable to heat driven by Santa Ana winds in fall, winter, and spring
Esteemed Scripps Climate Scientist Appointed as the Edward A. Frieman Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability
Veerabhadran Ramanthan selected as inaugural holder of faculty chair that honors legacy of late Scripps director
New Research is the First to Relate Antarctic Sea Ice Melt to Weather Change in the Tropics
Diminishing sea ice translates to warmer ocean, more rain, and stronger trade winds
"SMART 2.0" Revolutionizing Identification of Natural Compounds
Organic chemistry tool developed at UC San Diego is speeding up drug discovery, toxicological analysis, and more
UC San Diego Receives $1.3M from Koret Foundation to Support Binational Collaboration on Marine Archaeology Research
Three-year gift will support scientific collaboration between the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology and the University of Haifa in Israel
Study Shows Acceleration of Global Mean Ocean Circulation since 1990s
Influence of greenhouse gas emissions cited as contributing cause
Up, Up, and Away
Long-duration balloons collecting climate data in the sky complete first trip around the globe
A New Consequence of Arctic Sea Ice Melt: Changing Weather at the Equator
Research links sea ice retreat with tropical phenomena including a new kind of El Niño
Media Advisory: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Schedule of Events During Week One at COP25
Newest research on atmospheric rivers, Antarctic contributions to sea-level rise, and more to be released
Climate Science in Review: A Look Back on 2019
The biggest news in climate change to come from Scripps this past year
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