New research led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography highlights the critical role of mangroves in protecting coastal communities from the devastating effects of climate change—particularly hurricanes.

Rivers are vital ecosystems that support high biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services such as drinking water, irrigation and recreation.

As wildfires continue to rage across the Los Angeles area, their toll on lives, homes, and natural landscapes is undeniable.

Destructive fires, fueled by a dry landscape and powerful Santa Ana winds, burned in the Los Angeles area in January 2025. 

A thorough analysis of market and supply chain outcomes for sodium-ion batteries and their lithium-ion competitors is the first by STEER, a new Stanford and SLAC energy technology analysis program.

Bats depend on open bodies of water such as small ponds and lakes for foraging and drinking. 

Oregon’s Cascade Range mountains might not hold gold, but they store another precious resource in abundance: water.

For many industrial processes, the typical way to separate gases, liquids, or ions is with heat, using slight differences in boiling points to purify mixtures.

Many people around the globe are living in energy poverty, meaning they spend at least 8 percent of their annual household income on energy.

The process of updating deep learning/AI models when they face new tasks or must accommodate changes in data can have significant costs in terms of computational resources and energy consumption.