Officials urge the public to avoid water contact, especially near discharging storm drains, creeks and rivers as stormwater ...

An extraordinary jump in ocean temperatures in 2023 and 2024 was at the extreme end of expectations from global warming and ...

The influx of cold meltwater could slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by up to 20% by 2050, researchers reported March 3 ...

The world's sea levels grew far more quickly and by a larger amount than anticipated in 2024, mostly due to warming water ...

Due to the recent rainfall forecasted to continue into Friday, Santa Barbara County Environmental Health Services ...

The Climate Shift Index: Ocean (Ocean CSI) is a system that computes the climate change fingerprint on daily ocean temperatures. More specifically, it indicates how human-caused climate change ...

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

On a special episode (first released on March 6, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast:What if we can slow climate change by giving the ocean an antacid? It’s called ocean alkalinity enhancement and it ...

Climate change may lead to more precipitation and more intense floods. A new study shows that to understand the details of ...

A healthy ocean plays a vital role in stabilizing the world’s climate and sustaining life on Earth. Climate change presents a pervasive threat to the health, resilience and productivity of the world’s ...