From the Metropolitan Water District: Webb Tract is about to be transformed by a Nature-Based Solutions grant from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy. The current steward of the approximately 5,500-acre island, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, is leading...
By John Hart, Estuary News In the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, an invisible fire is burning. Peat soils, laid down under water when the region was a vast wetland, are oxidizing, vanishing into the atmosphere at the rate of about...
Most ships discharging ballast water into California waters are inspected, but state officials have tested the water of only 16 ships. Experts say invaders like mussels are inevitable under current rules and enforcement. By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date...
Floating wetlands sound like something straight out of a fairy tale, fanciful landscapes where the laws of nature are suspended. But these buoyant mats of peat and tall, spiky marsh plants called tules are very real. That said, floating wetlands...
A series of USGS interactive maps have recently been published. The maps identify locations and levels of mercury contamination resulting from historical gold mining California’s Sierra Nevada. From the USGS: Many may not know that mercury was used by miners...
