Press release from UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management California’s unique geomorphology and Mediterranean-type climate have largely...
By Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Outside her home in Riverside County, near the north shore of the Salton Sea, Sara Renteria is struggling to breathe. She has to speak...
Longfin smelt were once abundant in the San Francisco Bay estuary, but populations have declined more than 99% from 1980s levels. By Michael Gennaro, Courthouse News Service The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially listed the San Francisco Bay-Delta population...
Press release from the Hoopa Valley Tribe (7/25/24): Today, following American Rivers named California’s Trinty River to its top-ten list of endangered American rivers. https://www.americanrivers.org/media-item/trinity-river-named-among-americas-most-endangered-rivers-of-2024/, the Hoopa Valley Tribe (Hoopa) charged the United States Bureau of Reclamation (“Reclamation”) and California...
By the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Erosion of marsh boundaries by waves is a major cause of marsh loss, but little research has captured the effect of seasonal differences on marsh-edge retreat. A new study conducted by...
Nature-based solutions may seem too-good-to-be-true, but USGS is studying how these simple solutions provide benefits for people and the environment....
By the Department of Water Resources: About 60 miles north of Chico, CA is Anderson River Park which sits along the Sacramento River, downstream from Shasta and Keswick dams. In 2015, this site became the target of a multi-pronged effort...
