Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

Next week, we’ll see a string of days around this important number, when science says we feel "maximized" happiness.

A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society, Alley was a co-recipient of the 2007 ...

Winter combinations create a recipe for disaster with widespread impact in delays of city services in snow clearing and ...

The Fund for Science and Technology, a new private foundation, granted Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego ...

The grant, the largest of its kind since Scripps joined UCSD in 1960, will go toward research in several distinct areas.

New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has received a $15 million grant from the Fund for Science and Technology (FFST). This support will expand observational ...

Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when ...

Greenland is one of the fastest-melting cryosphere regions on Earth. In fact, scientists say the large-scale melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is irreversible, and it’s happening now at an ...

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...