“Marine heatwaves have become common annual occurrences,” Hager said, crediting the rise in heat waves with the blob’s first ...

A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching from the water ...

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists have issued weather alerts warning Californians about dangerous ocean conditions for more than half of the state's coastline on Wednesday. On Wednesday ...

The National Weather Service office in San Diego has a record of major weather events in the state going back about 100 years.

(TNS) — Imagine being able to check the likelihood of ocean pollution the same way you check the weather. It is an idea that a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San ...

Half a million barrels of toxic waste lie on the Pacific seabed, and scientists say strange halos reveal a hidden chemical legacy.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has named Mark Gold as the new director of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, the renowned ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

A teenage boy saved his brother from a rip current off Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California news outlets reported. Firefighters carried the two youths 300 feet to two waiting ambulances Saturday, ...