April 3, 2020
April 3, 2020 —
Heat waves driven by Santa Ana winds can cause perceptible impacts on hospitalizations for kidney failure, dehydration, and respiratory disease in fall, spring, and winter according to a team of San Diego scientists.
February 20, 2020
February 20, 2020 —
A long-feared scenario in which global warming causes Arctic permafrost to melt and release enough greenhouse gas to accelerate warming and cause catastrophe probably won’t happen. Researchers conclude that even if methane is released from permafrost, very little actually reaches the atmosphere.
February 19, 2020
February 19, 2020 —
A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego describe in a new study the successful use of an analysis tool that uses artificial intelligence to identify chemical compounds, including ones with potential benefit as cancer drugs or antibiotics, within seconds.
February 5, 2020
February 5, 2020 —
An international team of scientists from Scripps Oceanography and elsewhere used data from multiple sources including observations from the global Argo network of robotic floats to find that ocean circulation is accelerating, at least partly because of greenhouse gas-induced warming of the planet.
December 18, 2019
December 18, 2019 —
Scripps Oceanography researchers applied an established ecological principle to parasite-host relationships to find that each host’s parasite load stays within a certain range based not simply on the host’s size but on how much energy it can provide the parasites for sustenance.
December 4, 2019
December 4, 2019 —
Atmospheric rivers pose a $1 billion-a-year flood risk in the West, according to a study released today.
September 4, 2019
September 4, 2019 —
The amount of plastic fragments in Santa Barbara Basin sediments has been increasing exponentially since the end of World War II, according to a study by researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego.
July 22, 2019
July 22, 2019 —
A new study in Antarctic waters has found a significant decrease of salinity, or freshening of the seawater surrounding the Ross Ice Shelf, indicating that ice shelf melt is caused by warming surface waters following sea ice disappearance.
July 22, 2019
July 22, 2019 —
Destructive free radicals exist in marine ecosystems and are thought to degrade the cells of phytoplankton and other organisms. A new paper, however, suggests that these molecules actually play a beneficial role, upending some conventional wisdom.
July 9, 2019
July 9, 2019 —
California already has the most volatile water resources in the country. Scripps scientists discovered that the state’s precipitation, as it becomes less frequent but preferentially stronger, will vacillate even more wildly between extremes of drought and flooding as a consequence of climate change.
