High pressure in the Great Basin and low pressure over northern Baja California, plus a very strong jet stream roaring ...

During Thursday's National Day of Mourning, former President Jimmy Carter was remembered at a state funeral in Washington. (Scripps News) ...

Supreme Court justices will meet Friday to determine the fate of the popular social media platform TikTok in the United ...

La Niña, the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters, has finally arrived, but forecasters predict it is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as typically seen.

While some advocates hailed Biden's ban on offshore drilling, announced Monday, critics point out a big omission: the western ...

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

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

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

The Blue Water Film Festival takes place in San Diego, home to the Scripps Oceanographic Institution. The theme of the Blue Water Film Festival is about our Blue Planet; The festival's purpose is ...

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 ...

Some cities ordered beachfront homes and hotels to evacuate as forecasters warned that storm swells would continue to increase. Persistent high surf and flooding threats along California’s coast have ...

“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe – and rightly so,” Alfred Lansing wrote of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 voyage across it in a small lifeboat. It is, of course, the Drake ...