{"id":489298,"date":"2026-10-08T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489298\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:04:08","slug":"from-solutions-to-the-super-el-nino-uc-san-diego-at-climate-week-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489298\/","title":{"rendered":"From Solutions to the Super El Ni\u00f1o: UC San Diego at Climate Week New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wadhwa also noted <a href=\"https:\/\/today.ucsd.edu\/story\/new-gel-could-boost-coral-reef-restoration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">biotechnology advances being applied to coral reef restoration<\/a> that are showing capacity to increase recruitment of coral larvae, and efforts to identify more heat tolerant strains of kelp for future <a href=\"https:\/\/today.ucsd.edu\/story\/kelp-help-meet-the-scientists-working-to-restore-our-underwater-forests\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kelp forest restoration work<\/a> being led by scientists across UC San Diego.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the lab, Wadhwa also noted a UC San Diego-led initiative that may give society the most hope in making collective progress on climate: education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUC San Diego pioneered a program called the <a href=\"https:\/\/today.ucsd.edu\/story\/uc-san-diego-launches-new-graduation-requirement-bolstering-climate-change-education\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement<\/a>, which requires all first-year undergraduates, regardless of their major, to take an interdisciplinary course connected with climate change education, solutions or societal impacts,\u201d said Wadhwa.<\/p>\n<p>The program is the first of its kind at a major public university and the first within the University of California system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents across all majors on campus leave the university equipped to understand and address climate change, which they can then apply to whatever field they enter, whether that\u2019s urban planning, economics, engineering or communications,\u201d said Wadhwa. \u201dHaving more people that understand and care about this issue gives us more hands on deck working towards climate progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Have questions about climate change research and education at UC San Diego? Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/climatechange.ucsd.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/climatechange.ucsd.edu\/<\/a> to learn more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rule-top\">Learn more about research and education at UC San Diego in: <a href=\"https:\/\/climatechange.ucsd.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Change<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wadhwa also noted biotechnology advances being applied to coral reef restoration that are showing capacity to increase recruitment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-489298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}