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Tracking Our Carbon Footprint

The U.S. Geological Survey created a hypothetical event known as ARkStorm to depict storm and flooding scenarios.

USGS: Beware the ARkStorm

Kristen Whalen, Gareth Williams, and Robert Modini are the newest additions to the Scripps Postdoc Program.

Scripps Postdoc Program Gets a Boost

Mati Kahru

Blooming Early in the Arctic

A solar cooker constructed from everyday materials by Nora Weber Adderson.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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

Call of the Arctic

Those "Goose Bumps" on Glaciers

Study Finds Common Ground for Ecosystems and Fishing in Northwest Mexico

NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center Names Director

Earth Networks Launches Global Greenhouse Gas Observation Network in Collaboration with Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Scripps physical oceanographer Dean Roemmich

Voyager: What makes the ocean salty and how much salt is in the ocean?

“The Physics of Surfing” taught by Scripps Professor David Sandwell is a popular introductory course among UCSD freshmen.

Green Giant

Research Highlight: The Ocean's Accelerator

California air pollution laws target emissions from tractor-trailers and other diesel-burning vehicles.

Improving Air Quality to Slow Global Warming

Salton Sea Solutions

The eastern lagoon in the city of Lomé, Togo, has been dredged to counteract waste input. Photo credit: Kissao Gnandi]

Toxic Turnabout

This illustration shows patterns of ocean currents.

Voyager: Does water from the California coast ever become water in the Atlantic Ocean?

Costa Rica’s Arenal volcano

Deep Carbon Deposits

Built in 1910, George H. Scripps Memorial Marine Biological Laboratory is the oldest building on the UC San Diego campus.

From a Little Lab by the Sea

Scientists Present Latest Findings On Chile Earthquake

Scripps Scientists See the Light in Bizarre Bioluminescent Snail

Research uncovers secrets of strange mollusk and its use of light as a possible defense mechanism

Researchers Discuss Recent Pollution Study in California

Researchers Discuss Baja California's "Easter Earthquake"

New Black Carbon Research Helps Advance Climate Solutions

Autonomous University of Baja California Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Autonomous University of Baja California Celebrates 50th Anniversary

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