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

Some Northern California cities have been soaked with almost twice their average rainfall, while southern cities are bone-dry ...

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.

The American Lung Association says that Los Angeles has the most polluted air in America based on ozone measurements. Based ...

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

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

Fluorescent-colored sand sprinkled on San Diego County beaches could help reveal the complicated patterns of erosion that ...

After the deadly quake that struck Dingri County in the city of Xigaze, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Tuesday ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the ...

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 San Diego Air Pollution Control District issued the first nuisance citation for odors coming from the sewage overflows; ...