The wide-ranging initiative includes a bevy of dam removal projects By Hillel Aron California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new strategy Tuesday to restore the state’s ailing salmon population. “Salmon are an integral part of our shared history in California,”...
By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service There’s a structure that stands near a snow survey point at Phillips Station, off Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe. This time last year it was partially covered in snow. On Tuesday, snow levels...
From the Office of the Governor: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced new actions and efforts already underway that California is taking to help restore California’s salmon populations. After 10 years of rapidly intensifying drought and more extreme weather, salmon are...
A low-salinity Bay Area estuary ecosystem is producing higher-than-expected levels of methane By Aliyah Kovner, Berkeley Lab As sea levels rise due to global warming, ecosystems are being altered. One small silver lining, scientists believed, was that the tidal wetlands...
From UC Berkeley’s Rausser College of Natural Resources The 1972 Clean Water Act protects the “waters of the United States” but does not precisely define which streams and wetlands this phrase covers, leaving it to presidential administrations, regulators, and courts...
