Five Sacramento National Wildlife Refuges show pesticides By the USGS A new paper in Science of the Total Environment, co‑authored by researchers from several USGS Mission Areas and Centers, including the California Water Science Center, finds fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides...
By Teresa Tomassoni This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy...
From the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center A newly published study from USGS combines time-series measurements of sediment fluxes, repeat elevation surveys, and sediment core analysis to assess the long-term progress and future vulnerability of a restored marsh...
By Robin Meadows Staten Island lies in the heart of California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, and exemplifies the woes of this troubled region. More than one quarter of the Delta―about 200,000 acres―is deeply subsided. This extreme soil loss puts stress...
From the Department of Fish and Wildlife: Staff from CDFW’s Cutting the Green Tape program have been working hard to implement new permitting and CEQA tools for restoration projects across the state. The program’s latest legislative report for fiscal year...
by Ariel Rubissow Okamoto, Knee Deep Times Early results from 15 months of surveys in an experiment which placed sediment in the shallows to sustain nearby marshes in Eden Landing. This March, six boxes of mud shipped to a company...
