Modeling Sustainable Health Care at UC San Diego Health
April 17, 2023
UC San Diego Health has become a leader in advancing and modeling sustainable health care practices, with a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2025.
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Birch Aquarium Announces Two Weekends of Earth Day Celebrations
April 19, 2023
This Earth Day, Birch Aquarium is throwing a Party for the Planet, offering guests a fun opportunity to celebrate our ocean’s biodiversity and learn how they can take action to make a difference.
UC San Diego’s Big Ideas for 2016 — and Beyond
January 7, 2016
…consequential resources.” Replace petroleum-based plastics with biodegradable plastics made from algae Stephen Mayfield, professor of biology, director of the California Center for Algae Biotechnology “Algae are the most important photosynthetic organisms on Earth,” Mayfield says. “They capture more solar energy and produce more oxygen than the sum of the rest…
Economic Impact of COVID-19 will Make the Fight Against Climate Change Harder
April 15, 2020
Measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus have reduced the demand for fuel and slashed oil prices. Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the chief long-term cause of climate warming, have slid perhaps by one-fifth, but can we expect COVID-19 to create lasting change for the planet?
UC San Diego Receives $35 Million in State Funding for New California Coastal Research Vessel
July 23, 2021
California legislators have allocated UC San Diego $35 million to design and build a new coastal research vessel with a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid propulsion system. The new vessel will be operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
From Sea to Sky, Students Develop Tools for Improved Environmental
June 30, 2022
…end of the 100-foot-long plastic tubing that funnels the air samples back to the ground. The plastic tubing material, Kynar™, was chosen for being a flexible tubing medium that itself doesn’t contaminate the samples, while the 100 feet length was chosen as a first approximation of the height needed to…
Naming and Shaming Can be Effective to Get Countries to Act on Climate
September 25, 2023
Enforcement is one of the biggest challenges to international cooperation on mitigating climate change in the Paris Agreement. The agreement has no formal enforcement mechanism; instead, it designed to be transparent so that countries that fail to meet their obligations will be named and shamed.
The Underwater Library at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
April 8, 2021
…for her research on plastic pollution. With the help of Linsey Sala, Brandon documented microplastics in salps, pelagic invertebrates that form long, colonial chains. In a 2019 study, she estimated the ocean is contaminated by 8.3 million pieces of so-called mini-microplastics per cubic meter of water, a million times more…
Pollutants in Fish Inhibit Human’s Natural Defense System
April 15, 2016
…a new study, environmental pollutants found in fish were shown to obstruct the human body’s natural defense system to expel harmful toxins. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego-led research team suggests that this information should be used to better assess the human health risks from eating contaminated…
It’s Easy Being Green: Campus Learns Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Tips at Earth Week Events
April 23, 2015
…fact, cigarette butts and plastic filters of cigarettes continue to pollute the environment, are toxic to marine life and pose a fire risk. We’re trying to encourage those who smoke on the perimeters of campus to not litter.” Pino-Saballett added that there are many resources for those who would like…
