Sediment runoff from the state’s increasingly severe wildfires and heavy rain events may affect ecosystems and water resources downstream. By...
Dense populations, aerosols, and cities’ tendency to raise temperatures contribute to higher levels of precipitation in urban areas than in...
By Leslie Hart, College of Charleston and Miranda Dziobak, College of Charleston Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One. Tiny...
The country’s largest area designated for solar energy, Desert Center shows how sprawls of PV panels impact communities. Even supporters...
A commission recommended communities across the globe take steps to address a water crisis that threatens the world’s food security...
By Caleb Hampton The value of farmland in parts of the San Joaquin Valley, California’s agricultural heartland, has fallen rapidly this year as commodity prices lag and implementation of the state’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act casts a shadow on the...
The San Francisco Estuary watershed is characterized by periods of both wet and dry. But the dry seems to be...
By Jane Berg and Rachel Sender, co-published with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute At the end of 2022, 65...
Human-driven changes in gravel and salmon size impact spawning success by Tiffany Dobbyn, UC Davis Chinook salmon are facing unprecedented challenges as their once-thriving populations struggle to survive. A new study published in the journal Ecosphere suggests that decades of...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Two powerful California agencies have jumped into the legal fight over flows in the lower...
By Zhe Li, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the...
At Supreme Court next week, agency authority returns to center stage By Kelsey Reichmann The Supreme Court’s upcoming review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory authority over wastewater discharge pollution is likely to highlight bitter divides over the court’s role...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water A last-resort attempt to shore up funding for ongoing Friant-Kern Canal repairs has run into...
Tribe Receives $18 Million to Restore Newly Accessible Salmon Spawning Tributaries Press release from the Yurok Tribe Building on the...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released a Discussion Draft Implementation Plan and Guidelines for the Delta Conveyance Project’s Community Benefits Program (CBP). The implementation plan provides more detail about how the CBP could...