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Photo of the Week: Arctic Aloha

Scripps Scientists Recognized by American Geophysical Union

Helen Amanda Fricker and Lynn Russell named AGU Fellows; Richard Somerville to receive AGU Ambassador Award

California Releases New Climate Science, Planning Tools to Prepare for Climate Change Impacts

Scientists Find Corals in Deeper Waters Under Stress Too

Scripps researchers use novel approach to assess temperature stress on deep coral reefs in Palau, combining sea level and temperature data sets from continuous recorders serviced by divers

Research Highlight: Climate Model Predicts Faster Warming for the North Atlantic Ocean

Scripps Alumna and Sally Ride Science Instructor to Embark on Arctic Expedition

Cynthia Matzke, MAS '14, will study climate issues and engage in outreach to build an understanding of environmental changes and Inuit culture

Still Time to Act: Impending Weather and Health Disasters from Climate Change Could Spur Progress in Cutting Emissions

UC San Diego researchers argue that terrifying insights into what humans are doing to the environment could help activists and political leaders build momentum for deep and costly cuts in emissions

A Scientist's Life: Marty Ralph

Meteorologist pioneered study of atmospheric rivers impacting the western U.S.

Around the Pier: San Diego Canyon Restoration Helps a Community Prepare for Climate Risks

Research Highlight: Evidence of Ancient Abrupt Climate Change Found in Arctic

Evidence of Ancient Abrupt Climate Change Found in Arctic

Ramanathan Shares $1.33 Million Sustainable Development Prize with Fellow Climate Science Pioneer

Renowned Scripps climate researcher and former NASA scientist James Hansen honored for their work

Satellites Track Vanishing Antarctic Ice

Special issue of journal Nature on Antarctica suggests long-term decline of sea ice, posits new scenarios for continent’s future

Another Climate Milestone Falls at Mauna Loa Observatory

Campus Summit Encourages Collaboration to Solve Environmental Woes

From the Field: Greenland by Helicopter (and Dogsled)

Scripps students try to inform estimates of sea-level rise from remote ice cap

Photo of the Week: Life under the Ice

Researchers investigate how iceberg calving affects Antarctic marine life

Photo of the Week: Crushed Ice

Collecting glacial ice to study fjord ecosystems in the Southern Ocean

Video: How Scientists Measure Carbon Dioxide in the Air

Research Highlight: Key Biological Mechanism is Disrupted by Ocean Acidification

Key Biological Mechanism is Disrupted by Ocean Acidification

Inability of phytoplankton to acquire iron imperils marine ecosystems

Research Highlight: Acid Ocean Poses Increased Reef Loss Risk

Scripps Joins Mission to Understand a Major Southern Ocean Climate Influence

The world’s most pristine clouds happen to be in the place with the world’s roughest weather

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