By Jacoba Charles, Knee Deep Times What, precisely, is the value of habitat restoration? While answers tend to aim for pristine nature and thriving wildlife, one approach — recently published in the journal Nature — has assigned salt marsh restoration projects a...
By Alastair Bland Another fish native to the San Francisco Bay estuary may be joining the queue filing toward extinction. That’s the fear of a coalition of environmental groups that have petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to list...
From NOAA Research: For more than 75 years, high-hazard structures in the United States, including dams and nuclear power plants, have been engineered to withstand floods resulting from the most unlikely but possible precipitation, termed Probable Maximum Precipitation or PMP....
by Robin Meadows California’s freshwater ecosystems―from springs and wetlands to rivers and estuaries―are in trouble and the warming world is hastening their decline. Fish and the wealth of other aquatic species that live in these habitats are increasingly vulnerable as...
California’s climate presents extreme challenges, from droughts, floods, wildfires, and mudslides. These issues are exacerbated by climate change and are particularly pronounced in the Delta due to human-induced landscape modifications. Managing these complex challenges in the Delta has been likened...
