The week kicked off with a keynote speech by scientist Dawn Wright, who in 1991 became the first Black woman to dive to the ...

Daniel Wangpraseurt is a marine biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. He received his bachelor’s degree from James Cook University in Australia in 2008, his master's degree ...

Fernando Melendez Vazquez is a fifth-year PhD candidate studying marine biology with a focus on fish evolutionary biology at ...

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 ...

Containing wildfires—never mind extinguishing them—in parched and windy conditions can be monstrously difficult. Dry vegetation is rocket fuel for blazes and wind both feeds the flames and spreads the ...

Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires in Southern California, experts say.

a research meteorologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. “They act as water does in an obstructed stream—they pull up against topography, and ...

Epic events like the Southern California wildfires do not have a singular cause. While we don’t yet know the official causes of the fires, we do know that the weather and climate conditions when they ...

San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told ABC News. However, some climate experts point to growing evidence that shows climate change has increased the volatility between very dry and ...