New dataset and publication identify link between atmospheric rivers and wildfire in the interior Southwest. By the USGS Climate Adaptation Science Centers This winter, parts of drought-stricken California have been besieged by heavy flooding, mudslides, and feet of snow. The...
“Water is an issue where we need to reach farther, dig deeper, and dream dreams, particularly when it comes to the uncertainty ahead and the challenges in the Bay Delta,” he says For the past 150 years, the Sacramento-San Joaquin...
Areas of California’s San Joaquin Valley continue to sink in response to the state’s drought, finds a new update to a 2015 JPL report commissioned by the state of California. By NASA/JPL Fast Facts: For nearly a century, groundwater pumping...
Democrats in the California Legislature, wary of as-yet unknown environmental polices to come from the Trump White House, have moved to preempt potential federal rollbacks by introducing a trio of bills to maintain existing state protections—both for the environment and...
In 2015, the State Water Resources Control Board sent curtailment notices to pre- and post- 1914 water rights holders based on water availability analyses for different watersheds. A Division of Water Rights prosecution team pursued two separate enforcement actions in...
