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Smog over Los Angeles neighborhoods

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

Lava flow blocks access to Mauna Loa Observatory. Photo: Hawaii EMA Civil Air Patrol

Broken Record: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Jump Again

Average May reading 3.0 parts per million higher than in 2022

Sean de Guzman, Manager of the California Department of Water Resources Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit, inserts the a long aluminum snow depth survey pole into the snow during the final snow survey of the 2023 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Ken James / California Department of Water Resources

California Snowlines On Track To Be 1,600 Feet Higher by Century’s End

Lower-elevation ski resorts could lose more than 70 percent of their natural snow supply

Scripps Student Spotlight: Pascal Polonik

Graduate student researches human-environment interactions and how atmospheric particulates impact climate and health

Scripps Pier during 2019 lunar eclipse

Century-Old Scripps Pier Records Reveal Precipitation Trends

The salinity of seawater is used to detect El Niños of the past

Photo: Shutterstock

New Look at Climate Data Shows Substantially Wetter Rain and Snow Days Ahead

“Once-in-a-century” storms could be experienced more than once in a lifetime

Climate scientist Julie Kalansky

A Scientist's Life: Julie Kalansky

Climate scientist studies atmospheric river characteristics

An underwater photo of coral reefs

New Study Provides First Comprehensive Look at Oxygen Loss on Coral Reefs

Scripps Oceanography scientists and collaborators provide first-of-its-kind assessment of hypoxia, or low oxygen levels, across 32 coral reef sites around the world

Researchers capture a sediment sample in the field in Antarctica.

Researchers Extract First Layered Lake-Sediment Sample from Subglacial Antarctica

Scripps Oceanography alumnus and colleagues describe the sample's importance in understanding past dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet and its ecosystems

Geisel Library at UC San Diego, with orange flowers in the foreground.

UC San Diego Receives $15M Cryptocurrency Donation, Largest for Research on Airborne Pathogens

Vitalik Buterin directs gift to research on aerosols, establishing the UC San Diego Meta-Institute for Airborne Disease in a Changing Climate

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Scripps Oceanography Leads Sessions on Climate Change, Space, and Blue Tech at SXSW 2023

Expanded climate change programming at Conference focuses on impacts and solutions

Elephant in Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, Africa

After Devastating Wildlife Loss, Scripps Chemical Oceanographer Searches for Connection Between Water Resources and Wildlife

A photo essay from Botswana, Africa

This ARM Mobile Facility—a series of containers outfitted with sophisticated atmospheric and meteorological sampling equipment—will operate from February 2023 to February 2024 in La Jolla, California, as part of the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE). The EPCAPE campaign will explore aerosol indirect effects on stratocumulus clouds to help improve their representation in earth system models. Researchers will also investigate how pollution from the nearby Los Angeles metropolitan

Scripps Pier, UC San Diego Mount Soledad Facility to Host Coastal Marine Cloud Study

Year-long field campaign launches Feb. 15 to study the marine clouds that shade and cool the earth

Solitary zooid of Salpa thompsoni releases a chain of buds (blastozooids). Photo: Mike Stukel, Florida State University

SalpPOOP Study Highlights Biogeochemical Importance of Zooplankton Fecal Pellets

Blooms of marine organisms transfer loads of atmospheric carbon into the deep ocean

A visualization from space of the “Godzilla” dust storm on June 18, 2020, when desert dust traveled from the Sahara to North America. A UCLA-led study finds that an increase in microscopic dust in the atmosphere has concealed the full extent of greenhouse gases’ potential for warming the planet. Image: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

Increased Atmospheric Dust has Masked Power of Greenhouse Gases to Warm Planet

Study finds increasing levels of dust likely had cooling effect that slowed global warming, which could speed up if dust stops increasing

Standing in front of his tent, Austin Carter endures a windstorm in the Allan Hills in 2019.

Probing Antarctica by Land, Sea, Air, and from Earth Orbit

Scripps Oceanography research agenda ranges from microscopic organisms to ancient ice and studying ice sheet mass loss

Map highlighting countries surveyed by researchers studying links between climate change and childhood illness

Climate Change Exacerbating Gastrointestinal Problems in Children

Extreme weather events associated with diarrhea-related illness, death

California aqueduct next to almond farms

Scripps Climate Program Renewed with New Focus on Adaptation

$5 million in NOAA funding will support California Nevada Adaptation Program

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.

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

Researchers collect a sediment core from a mangrove forest

Scientists Dig into Sediments for Clues on Carbon Storage

From San Diego to the Galapagos Islands and beyond, Scripps Oceanography researchers are revealing the mysteries of carbon sequestration in aquatic ecosystems

Options for relocating measurement equipment being explored

Historic Keeling Curve Observation Interrupted by Volcanic Eruption

Options for relocating measurement equipment being explored

Deployment of a buoy by the Global Drifter Program

Study of Ocean Currents Reveal Intensification of Tropical Cyclones Around the World

Researchers use Scripps-developed ocean drifter data to spot 30-year trend

Ocean Pavilion Opening Ceremony at COP27

The Ocean Pavilion Announces Schedule of Events for COP27

Pavilion bringing world leaders in ocean science, engineering, and policy together to highlight ocean’s enormous role in climate

Kilauea volcano, June 12, 2018. Modified satellite data processed by Pierre Markuse

Clarity about Key Climate Dynamic Creates More Pressure to Rein in Global Temperature Increase

Role of carbon dioxide in heating planet unmasked, forcing new projections of how warm things can get

A COP27 flasg waves in front of a blue cloudy sky.

Meet the UC San Diego Delegates Headed to Egypt for UN Climate Conference

Students and faculty from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and School of Global Policy and Strategy prepare to attend COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

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