Draft EIS on the Central Valley Project sidesteps state law regulating groundwater pumping and omits water conservation potential A recently released draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on the operation of a massive federal water...
Press release from UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management California’s unique geomorphology and Mediterranean-type climate have largely...
From NASA: A team of scientists and engineers at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated to see if a small piloted drone, equipped with a specialized payload, could help create detailed maps of how fast water is flowing....
Coastal communities, particularly those around large estuaries like San Francisco Bay, face increasing challenges due to sea-level rise and anthropogenic activities such as sediment extraction. Understanding the potential effects of these perturbations, particularly in the face of accelerating sea level...
By Wynne E. Moss, U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center Alaska’s boreal forests are declining, as increasing drought stress...
The court’s denial may well mean the end of a 20-year-old water management battle. By Edvard Pettersson, Courthouse News Service The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday said it won’t rehear a challenge to long-term water contracts with California’s...
While dam removal work is ongoing, fish passage has been restored at the former Oregon dam site Press release from the Klamath River Renewal Corporation: Yesterday, crews broke through the cofferdam at the JC Boyle Dam site, returning the river...
