DWR NEWS: Winter Storms Allow State Water Project to Move and Store Additional Water DWR News News and Features March 29, 2023 11By DWR News The series of storms that have hit California since the beginning of the year is translating to...
FEATURE: The Magic of the Mokelumne: How such a small river produces so many salmon Robin Meadows Best of the Notebook March 28, 2023 11430Written by Robin Meadows for Maven’s Notebook The Mokelumne River is on the modest side, running 95 miles from the...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: In California’s Central Valley, the Plan to Build More Solar Faces a Familiar Constraint: The Need for More Power Lines Inside Climate News News and Features March 26, 2023The state could embrace “policy synergy” to deploy solar in areas transitioning out of agriculture, but the transmission lines must...
COMMENTARY AT CAL MATTERS: Western water crisis solutions inevitably end with a lot less for California farms Cal Matters Commentary March 23, 2023 11The water crisis in the West and the decline of the Colorado River are going to require painful changes for...
DAN WALTERS: California’s ghostly Tulare Lake will be revived this year Cal Matters Commentary March 22, 2023 14California was once home to the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, but Tulare Lake disappeared as water...
USBR NEWS: Keeping Folsom Reservoir’s cold water in the bank until it’s needed Bureau of Reclamation News News and Features March 20, 2023 17By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation California’s winter storms have blasted the Sierra Nevada with a thick blanket of...
CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: Newsom’s Delta decisions are the sort of responsive moves California needs for water crisis Cal Matters Commentary March 17, 2023 1The decision to suspend environmental regulations for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – and then reverse it a few weeks later...
CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: Waiving California environmental rules for Delta water equates to a civil rights issue Cal Matters Commentary March 17, 2023Despite reversing course last week, the February decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state water officials to bypass environmental rules...
THE CONVERSATION: Is the Western drought finally ending? That depends on where you look The Conversation News and Features March 16, 2023 20By Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break....
CDFW Testing ‘Parentage-Based Tagging’ of Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Department of Fish and Wildlife News and Features March 16, 2023 108By the Department of Fish & Wildlife: Under cover of darkness and with a series of cold, late-winter storms building,...
GRIST: How rising temperatures are intensifying California’s atmospheric rivers Grist News and Features March 15, 2023 22As storms get warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up. By Jake Bittle, Grist...
DFW NEWS: CDFW Using Winter Storms to Help Increase Survival of Hatchery Released Chinook Salmon Department of Fish and Wildlife News and Features March 15, 2023 12By CDFW News Anticipating good conditions for the survival of hatchery-produced Chinook salmon throughout the Sacramento River and tributaries, the...
THE CONVERSATION: Why rain on snow in the California mountains worries scientists The Conversation News and Features March 14, 2023By Keith Musselman, University of Colorado Boulder, The Conversation Another round of powerful atmospheric rivers is hitting California, following storms...
CAL MATTERS: State water agency rescinds controversial Delta order Cal Matters News and Features March 10, 2023 61By Alistair Bland, Cal Matters State officials say the urgency to store more water has vanished as storms swell reservoirs....
AGU: The world’s atmospheric rivers now have an intensity ranking like hurricanes American Geophysical Union News and Features March 9, 2023From the American Geophysical Union Atmospheric rivers, which are long, narrow bands of water vapor, are becoming more intense and...
