Coastal wetland restoration offers major carbon benefits, and understanding groundwater processes helps explain how these ecosystems store carbon over the long term. By Mahmood Sadat-Noori, EOS Coastal (tidal) wetlands are low-lying ecosystems found where land meets the sea, including mangroves,...
Even after legalization, illicit cannabis grows continue to pollute California’s public lands. And the contamination, new research shows, lingers. By...
by Robin Meadows Many of the great rivers that meet in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta begin high in the Sierra Nevada, where summer snowmelt feeds streams that start as trickles and then gush downslope toward the sea. “These tiny, little...
From the Department of Water Resources: In the last five years, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and its partners have restored thousands of acres of tidal wetlands and floodplains along the Sacramento River and in the Delta, where the...
Earth’s oceans absorbed unprecedented heat last year, intensifying hurricanes, floods and droughts while driving sea levels higher. By Jeremy Yurow, Courthouse News Service The world’s oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than any year on record, providing the fuel for...
By Jennifer Mueller, Natural Resource Specialist The BLM Applegate Field Office is celebrating a remarkable transformation at Fitzhugh Creek Meadow,...
From the US Department of Agriculture: Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins filed a notice to intervene in the Potter Valley Hydroelectric Project proceedings currently being considered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This action will allow...