New research led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography highlights the critical role of mangroves in ...

A recent push by the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego works to understand and protect the planet and find solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges. Humankind faces catastrophic changes in ...

Scientists initially expected some whale populations to rebound a decade after the BP oil spill. New research suggests they ...

Born in England in 1836, Ellen Browning Scripps moved to the United States and became wealthy through her family’s newspaper ...

After a few wet winters, Southern California is officially back in drought conditions, with San Diego County among the ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill that began nearly 15 years ago may have had a larger impact on offshore ecosystems than ...

The Axial Seamount volcano, 470km off the Oregon coast, is set to erupt in 2025, with the volcano displaying tell-tale signs ...

Founded in 1903, Scripps is one of the oldest and most prestigious marine and earth sciences research institutions in the world. The Scripps mission is to “seek, teach, and communicate ...

About 50% of the sand that historically came from natural bluff erosion or flowed downstream in rivers has been lost, it ...