October 20, 2026
October 20, 2026 —
New statewide report led by UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy researchers examines climate change’s economic impacts; a second report from Scripps Institution of Oceanography takes a closer look at San Diego’s future.
September 10, 2026
September 10, 2026 —
A new report for California policymakers assesses current flood modeling practices and offers eight recommendations to improve how mitigation infrastructure is reflected in the catastrophe models that are used to set insurance prices.
August 17, 2026
August 17, 2026 —
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 the ocean's food web.
July 14, 2026
July 14, 2026 —
Scripps Oceanography researchers and colleagues found that deep ocean turbulence affects our lives not on a scale of thousands of years as was previously thought, but within the span of a human lifetime.
July 8, 2026
July 8, 2026 —
A 2019 Australian bushfire provided a case study enabling researchers to consider whether the geoengineering technique called marine cloud brightening could diminish the destructive effects of major El Niño events in the future.
July 7, 2026
July 7, 2026 —
A comprehensive study of more than 1,100 springs in the American West warns that critical biodiversity hotspots are facing a mounting extinction crisis.
June 29, 2026
June 29, 2026 —
UC San Diego scientists and colleagues pinpointed an individual coal-fired power plant in Houston, Texas, as the main source of particles most likely to encourage formation of clouds around the metropolitan area. Particles that size are also most likely to cause respiratory illness.
June 22, 2026
June 22, 2026 —
Peter Lonsdale, a professor and researcher of marine geology who contributed to foundational developments in understanding of deep-sea geology, died May 10, 2026, at the age of 78. His career spanned more than five decades.
June 16, 2026
June 16, 2026 —
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.
June 11, 2026
June 11, 2026 —
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego reported today that carbon dioxide levels at Mauna Loa Observatory reached 432.00 parts per million in May, continuing a long trend of record-breaking annual peak readings.
