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The Aviation Industry Needs to Overhaul its Response to Climate Change

September 19, 2022

Aviation’s growing impact on the climate crisis requires radical solutions that may upend the industry, according to a new Nature commentary article from the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.

The Outer Limits: Future Economic Growth in the Face of Diminishing Resources

July 21, 2022

In the face of diminishing finite resources, UC San Diego Professor of Physics Thomas Murphy believes our current trajectory of economic growth is unable to continue much longer.

Central Pacific Coral Reef Shows Remarkable Recovery Despite Two Warm-Water Events

July 7, 2022

A new 10-year study from Palmyra Atoll in the remote central Pacific Ocean shows that reefs outside the reach of local human impacts can recover from bleaching.

UC San Diego Researchers Part of $25M Project To Build Artificial Coral Reefs for Coastal Protection

June 21, 2022

A team of researchers involving UC San Diego has received a $25 million award from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build artificial coral reefs to protect coastal areas in Hawai’i against flooding, erosion and storm damage.

Kawasaki Disease Rates Dropped During COVID-19 Pandemic

June 17, 2022

UC San Diego researchers report significant decrease in national cases of Kawasaki disease during COVID-19 pandemic; findings hint at origins of disease.

Ambitious New Environmental Challenge Aims to Rewild 40 Globally Significant Island Ecosystems from

April 14, 2022

As island communities around the world suffer some of the worst effects of biodiversity loss and climate change, there is a critical need for conservation efforts that strategically benefit both islands and their interconnected ocean ecosystems.

New Evidence Suggests California’s Environmental Policies Preferentially Protect Whites

April 7, 2022

Asian and Hispanic communities experience significantly more air pollution from economic activity compared to predominantly white neighborhoods across the state of California, according to new research from the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy.

UC San Diego Design Lab & California 100 Partner to Bring Top Talent to Design@Large Workshop Series

April 4, 2022

In order to get the future we want, we must take an active hand in designing it. Californians are creating many opportunities to shape the state’s future, including Governor Gavin Newsom’s statewide Future of Work Commission, responses to sweeping social changes brought about by COVID-19.

UC San Diego Biology Lab Receives $1.4M Grant to Fight Malaria Spread

March 30, 2022

New funding from the Gates Foundation will support cutting-edge genetics strategies designed implement and safely restrain gene drives that help stop the spread of malaria, which annually infects more than 200 million people.

Scientists Discover How Molecule Becomes Anticancer Weapon

March 21, 2022

Years of toil in the laboratory have revealed how a marine bacterium makes a potent anti-cancer molecule. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that an enzyme called SalC assembles what the team calls the salinosporamide anti-cancer “warhead.”
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