The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that works jointly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a new healt...

The erosion has already affected private residences, parks, beaches and roadways across the region, bringing the Pacific Ocean surf dangerously close to infrastructure.

A report released Sept. 9 by California Ocean Science Trust (OST), in partnership with UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, analyzes the state of the science behind flood risk modeling and mitigation as part of an effort to incentivize ri...

By modeling toxic diatoms and coastal processes, scientists have discovered the degree to which nutrients from Southern California’s densely populated coast affect these blooms.

Artificial intelligence accelerates drug innovation at UC San Diego.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has selected astrophysicist France Anne Córdova as the recipient of the 2026 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest.

Take a step way back and see our planet in context: a tiny yet dynamic system in a vast cosmic neighborhood.

Museums around the world now have a new tool to distinguish real ancient clay artifacts from fakes. The research team at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, led by postdoctoral scholar...

Warmer water off the coast has made things slightly swampy for residents used to a succession of splendid days.

"It's exhilarating."

Cooler weather won’t broadly return to the region until Sunday.

A specialized camera allowed researchers to discover large phytoplankton that would have been nearly impossible to detect using conventional methods. The discovery changes how scientists understand th...

Cow burps are heating the planet, and one dairy farmer’s seaweed fix might help cool it down.

Explore UC San Diego’s pioneering space research in astronomy, astrophysics, planetary sciences, life sciences, engineering, data, health and more.

Soils help filter water, anchor landscapes and more

"It's here, and it's big."

For the first time, scientists have documented what white sharks do when storms are on the way.

Scientists say the "biolibrary" at the L.A. County Natural History Museum will help them better track the effects of climate change on a fragile and beloved ecosystem.

Nao Song is an upcoming third-year undergraduate student studying marine biology with a minor in geosciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Scientists have discovered that the southern Andes Mountains don't rise slowly and steadily as previously thought. Instead, the range builds itself in short, powerful “pulses” every few million years.

Blood Falls has long been one of Antarctica’s strangest landmarks: a red-stained outflow that spills from the face of Taylor Glacier into the cold, dry landscape of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The color ...