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Pioneering Scripps Earth Scientist Awarded by the European Geosciences Union

Meinrat Andreae to receive Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership for groundbreaking research in geosciences

Photo of the Week: Plankton Ahoy

Student helps citizen scientists gather data in Antarctic fjords

New Study Reveals Strong El Niño Events Cause Large Changes in Antarctic Ice Shelves

Oscillations of water temperature in the tropical Pacific Ocean can induce rapid melting of Antarctic ice shelves

New Study Identifies Thermometer for the Past Global Ocean

Researchers now able to reconstruct past ocean temperatures

A Scientist's Life: Fiamma Straneo

Physical oceanographer studies interplay between Greenland's glaciers and a warming ocean

Around the Pier: UC San Diego Helps Fill U.S. Void at International Climate Talks

Despite diminished official U.S. presence, university joined state leaders in reaffirming commitment to mitigate and adapt to climate change

New Multicampus Undergraduate Course Gets Students Involved in Climate Change Solutions

Scripps Scientists Use Photomosaic Technology to Find Order in the Chaos of Coral Reefs

Photo of the Week: Wet Winter

Animation shows how El Niño spurred large surface melt in Antarctica

Research Highlight: Why Was the 2015-16 El Niño Event So Dry?

Photo of the Week: Antarctic Melt

Research Highlight: Rising CO2 Leading to Changes in Land Plant Photosynthesis

Suggests that plants have achieved an optimum response to rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere

New Climate Risk Classification Created to Account for Potential "Existential" Threats

California's Climate Future Suggests More Volatility and a Key Role for Atmospheric Rivers

Management of water resources could become more challenging

Rising CO2 Leading to Changes in Land Plant Photosynthesis

Suggests that plants have achieved an optimum response to rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere

Protect Herbivores, Preserve Coral Reefs

Research Highlight: Protect Herbivores, Preserve Coral Reefs

Natural Methane "Time Bomb" Unlikely to Wreak Climate Havoc

But human-caused fossil methane emissions larger than previously believed

Research Highlight: After the Break

How the separation of a state-sized iceberg changes ecology in a key region of ocean biology

Voyager: Is there a limit to how much sea temperatures can rise?

Special Notice: Statement from Scripps Oceanography Glaciologist on Larsen C Iceberg

Event in itself not necessarily cause for alarm, researcher says

Around the Pier: Meeting of the Minds

Scripps leadership and scientists meet His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to discuss climate change, global concerns

Scientists Report Large-Scale Surface Melting Event in Antarctica during 2015-16 El Niño

A Scientist's Life: Tarik Benmarhnia

Climate change epidemiologist considers human health hazards

Photo of the Week: Bending the Curve