New study shows impacts of increased levels of evaporative demand as climate grows warmer and drier From the Desert Research...
Professor Holly Doremus is a leading scholar and teacher in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, and law...
From the Office of the Governor: Harnessing the innovative spirit of California, Governor Gavin Newsom today advanced an executive order enlisting California’s vast network of natural and working lands – forests, rangelands, farms, wetlands, coast, deserts and urban greenspaces –...
By Joshua Viers, director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Science (CITRIS) at UC Merced,...
A new model that combines sea-level rise scenarios and information about associated groundwater level responses shows that coastal water tables...
As more than two dozen fires still rage, Newsom stands amid charred parkland, vowing to ratchet up the state’s ‘inadequate’ plan to cut carbon emissions. By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for...
Guest commentary written by Robert Shibatani: Insofar as climate change and water resources is concerned, there are many related issues,...
In October 2019, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released the report, Priorities for California’s Water, which outlined California’s...
Conditions in the Delta are changing at a rapid pace and the future is likely to look very different than the present as climate change, sea level rise, a growing population, earthquakes and major flooding, new invasive species, increasing water...
Pushing homeowners away from the water is proving difficult. They want to protect property values; the state wants to save...
Is the State on the Right Track? Guest commentary by Robert Shibatani It’s been about 30-years since the UN based...
…Not as currently configured, says Robert Shibatani Guest commentary by Robert Shibatani: Water rights, depending on jurisdiction, possess various levels of seeming indemnity and security, typically demonstrated through some standard of legally established priority. Water entitlements have been long-standing icons...
A living shoreline is a shoreline protection alternative that relies on the strategic placement of plants, stone, sand fill, and...
Climate change is already transforming California’s water cycle, putting stress on the state’s rigidly engineered water infrastructure as well as...
Planning for future conditions has always involved uncertainty, but the additional uncertainty imposed by a changing climate means new approaches are needed for exploring system vulnerabilities and potential adaptation responses. At the 2019 State of the Estuary conference, Andrew Schwarz,...