News Archive - Environment

Esteemed Science Fiction Writer to Close Out 2022-2023 UC San Diego Library Author Talk Series

The University of California San Diego Library’s Author Talk Series is concluding its third consecutive year of programming on April 17 with internationally-acclaimed author and prominent UC San Diego alum, Kim Stanley Robinson ’74, PhD ’82.

“Bizarre” Yoda Acorn Worm Makes Top 10 Marine Species List

A team of marine scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego described a new acorn worm species, Yoda demiankoopi, in a paper published in 2022. Now the deep-sea worm is among the top 10 new marine species acknowledged by the World Register of Marine Species.

California Governor Gavin Newsom Visits UC San Diego’s Nimitz Marine Facility

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Senate President Pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins stopped by UC San Diego’s Nimitz Marine Facility on Sunday, March 19 to highlight an innovative new California coastal research vessel in development.

New Study Provides First Comprehensive Look at Oxygen Loss on Coral Reefs

A new study is providing an unprecedented examination of oxygen loss on coral reefs around the globe under ocean warming. Led by researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the study captures the current state of hypoxia—or low oxygen levels—at 32 different sites.

New Study Examines Noise Reduction from Retrofitted Shipping Vessels

Researchers with the Scripps Whale Acoustics Lab teamed up with shipping giant Maersk to examine radiated noise from 12 of Maersk’s retrofitted vessels, an effort to identify whether design changes have an impact on noise levels. The study was published March 16 in the journal PLOS One.

“Denoising” a Noisy Ocean

UC San Diego scientists and colleagues have developed a way for computers to sift through sounds collected by field acoustic recording packages and process them faster than even the most trained human analysts. The method represents a major advance in the field of signal processing.

Researchers Extract First Layered Lake-Sediment Sample from Subglacial Antarctica

For the first time, a team of researchers with the National Science Foundation-funded project Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) has successfully extracted layered sediments from beneath the modern Antarctic ice sheet.

Complex Learned Social Behavior Discovered in Bee’s ‘Waggle Dance’

Researchers have discovered early social learning in insects. They found signaling communicated by honey bees about food sources—transmitted through a “waggle dance”—is an intricate form of social learning and one of the most complex known examples of non-human spatial referential communication.

Birch Aquarium Welcomes Baby Weedy Seadragons

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is celebrating the arrival of more than 70 tiny newborn Weedy Seadragons, which are incredibly difficult to breed and rear in captivity.

Coastal Water Pollution Transfers to the Air in Sea Spray Aerosol and Reaches People on Land

New research led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has confirmed that coastal water pollution transfers to the atmosphere in sea spray aerosol, which can reach people beyond just beachgoers, surfers, and swimmers.