Outlook for salmon improves after low returns closed California fisheries. By NOAA Fisheries According to the NOAA California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment’s annual report, the California Current Ecosystem pulled out of a strong El Niño pattern in 2024. That El Niño delayed...
NOAA partners The Nature Conservancy and Trout Unlimited report that endangered Central California Coast coho salmon are using NOAA-funded restoration...
The downward trajectory for snow carries serious consequences for water supplies, wildlife habitat, wildfire activity and outdoor recreation. By Mitch...
Poor dam design and lack of evacuation plans bode disaster in an era of climate change From the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN): Trinity Dam has been a source of anxiety ever since Oroville Dam on the Feather River almost...
Fresno has a 200% gravel surplus. So why does CEMEX want to dig a pit deeper than Millerton Lake along one of America’s most over-extracted rivers? By Gregory Weaver, Fresnoland The San Joaquin River, one of California’s most beleaguered waterways,...
By Robin Kundis Craig, University of Kansas The U.S. Supreme Court has limited how flexible the Environmental Protection Agency and states can be in regulating water pollution under the Clean Water Act in a ruling issued March 4, 2025. However,...
By Sonia Lemus, SJV Water Discussions among Kern County agricultural water districts on whether to continue funding the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP) are ramping up. The project proposes to move Sacramento River water through a massive tunnel under the environmentally...