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Pooling Support for the Next Generation

Salinity of the world's oceans is mapped in contour lines using data collected by Argo drifters.

Argo: World's Hydrological Cycle is Accelerating

Voyager: As scientists study the effects of plastic-related toxins that marine organisms are ingesting, are they finding the chemical or physical effect to be more dangerous?

Around the Pier: New Center Addresses National Security Implications of Environmental Change

Whale Feeding Phenomenon Demystified in American Scientist Magazine Cover Story Written by Scripps Researcher

Damage to Threatened Gulf of California Habitats Can be Reversed

Damage to Threatened Gulf of California Habitats Can be Reversed

Seamounts Reach a Pinnacle in Upcoming Issue of Oceanography

Wildlife Photographer to Reveal Beauty, Importance of Southern California Ocean

Wildlife Photographer to Reveal Beauty, Importance of Southern California Ocean

Scripps Scientists Honored

Scripps Scientists Honored

Scripps Oceanography to Host Fast-Paced Ocean Science Competition for High Schools

Scripps Oceanography to Host Fast-Paced Ocean Science Competition for High Schools

New Postdocs Join Scripps

New Postdocs Join Scripps

Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Possibly Triggered by Ocean Waves, Scripps-led Study Finds

Scripps Director Provides Key Scientific Perspective at Davos World Economic Forum

Scripps Director Provides Key Scientific Perspective at Davos World Economic Forum

New Center Addresses National Security Implications of Environmental Change

New Center Addresses National Security Implications of Environmental Change

Renowned Oceanographer Walter Munk to Receive Crafoord Prize

Renowned Oceanographer Walter Munk to Receive Crafoord Prize

Obituary Notice: Prominent Research Biologist: Edward Brinton

Scripps Marine Microbiologist Selected as Packard Distinguished Lecturer

Scripps Marine Microbiologist Selected as Packard Distinguished Lecturer

A Response to Climate Change Denialism

A Response to Climate Change Denialism

Scripps/LLNL Team Wins Grant to Improve Greenhouse Gas Emissions Verification

Scripps/LLNL Team Wins Grant to Improve Greenhouse Gas Emissions Verification

Mike Dettinger, a US Geological Survey hydrologist based at Scripps, takes part in research at a Sierra Nevada river.

How's your river running?

Robert Paine Scripps Forum for Science, Society, and the Environment (Scripps Seaside Forum)

In Full Bloom

Scripps Seaside Forum earns architectural "orchid"

Scripps researchers conducted ecological surveys of the Gulf of California's mangroves

Threatened Gulf

Parabolic disc solar cookers are said to boil water faster than conventional stoves in direct sunlight.

Voyager: Since soot has detrimental effects on humans and their surroundings, why aren't solar stoves used worldwide?

Lava flows on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. Photo courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey

A Deeply Hawaiian Hotspot

In many areas, Indian women rely on dung or wood to fuel cooking stoves. Image courtesy of M.V. Ramana

Voyager: To what extent does biomass burning add to the increase in climate change?

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