In the deep sea, it never stops snowing. The type of snow that falls in the ocean, known as marine snow, is very different ...

Coral reefs are renowned for their visual beauty, but for the marine life they support, their sounds may be just as enticing.

Tommy Stone is a fourth-year PhD student studying applied ocean science at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San ...

Ask any scuba diver what it’s like to experience a kelp forest underwater, and they’re likely to wax poetic about the magic ...

The world’s biggest geohazards, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, all originate in subduction zones — regions where one tectonic plate sinks beneath another into the Earth’s mantle ...

El Niño is a climate pattern that is declared when monthly sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean are measured above normal, for at least five consecutive ...

Image caption: Scripps meteorologist Chad Hecht releases a weather balloon into an atmospheric river making landfall in Marysville, Calif. The Pacific Ocean’s El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ...

Image caption: The coastline looking south from San Francisco in Sept. 2024 taken during a topographic lidar survey of the California coastline led by the Scripps Air-Sea Interaction Lab. El Niño is ...

Following a four-year study of San Diego County coastal cliffs, Scripps Oceanography scientists found that a network of in-ground sensors can provide a reliable warning of impending, dangerous ...

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 (ppm) in ...