Kamaʻehuakanaloa (formerly Lōʻihi Seamount), a submarine Hawaiian volcano located about 20 miles off the south coast of the Big Island...
About 55 million years ago, the Atlantic Ocean was born. Until then, Europe and America were connected. As the continents...
The first-ever study to look at drivers of both marine heatwaves and cold spells in the shallow nearshore along the...
In California, thousands of miles of fiber optic cables crisscross the state, providing people with internet. But these underground cables...
Sea salt hides a secret: tiny droplets of the seawater from which it came, preserving geologic history. Using specializing equipment...
Loss of forest cover is associated with more frequent extreme flooding, as well as more frequent floods of any size,...
Dunes, the mounds of sand formed by the wind that vary from ripples on the beach to towering behemoths in...
Nearly six years have passed since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico. The historic storm, one of the deadliest...
A new study from UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher emeritus Peter Bromirski uses nearly a century of...
Carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere—and, consequently, ocean temperatures—are rising. How high and how fast ocean temperatures can rise can...
Earth’s oldest craters could give scientists critical information about the structure of the early Earth and the composition of bodies...
In past ice ages, the intensity of summer insolation affected the emergence of warm and cold periods and played an...
