August 27, 2018
The State of California today released California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment, which details new information on the impacts of climate change and provides planning tools to support the state’s response. Among the assessment’s warnings are that two-thirds of Southern California’s beaches could completely disappear and the average area burned by…
February 9, 2017
…and extend a five-year drought across the Southwest. But as it turns out, La Niña, yin to El Niño’s yang, has decided to stay home this year. Cool waters in the eastern half of the tropical Pacific were relatively weak—barely registering as a La Niña. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center looks…
October 16, 2014
…face of California’s severest drought on record. UC San Diego, which has long had ambitious water-saving goals, has been more than willing to help spread the word. “Water is one of our most important resources,” said Sara McKinstry, Campus Sustainability Manager. “We are always happy to share water conservation tips…
November 10, 2014
…contributors to the empire’s sudden demise – overpopulation and drought.
June 1, 2020
UCSanDiego scientists have developed a new biosensor that visualizes stress in living plant cells in real time. The new nanosensor allows unprecedented access to explore mechanisms related to drought.
August 21, 2014
The severe drought gripping the western United States in recent years is changing the landscape well beyond localized effects of water restrictions and browning lawns. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have now discovered that the growing, broad-scale loss of water is causing the entire western…
February 11, 2015
…understand variability in the region’s water supply, flood and drought hazards, infrastructure requirements, and optimal reservoir operations.
June 8, 2023
CO2 levels measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked at 424 parts per million in May, continuing a steady climb further into territory not seen for millions of years, scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego announced this week.
May 23, 2019
…fires, to hurricanes, to droughts to blackouts. The goal is to prepare students for jobs at power companies and research in graduate school. It is part of a series of 12 courses that Abi-Samra developed that examine all the different components of a power grid, from the “generators to toasters”.…
March 20, 2014
…long-term impact of current drought on natural ecosystems James Hung has collected more than 17,000 wild bees from coastal, desert and mountain areas of San Diego County. But many of his specimens bear little resemblance to the honey bees we normally think of as bees. To the casual observer, his…
