By Dan Walters, Cal Matters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Tanned, rested and...
By Faith Kearns, Arizona State University As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim...
By John Cannon, Mongabay On Sept. 8, 2020, a brush field in southern Oregon, in the northwestern U.S., caught fire. Over the next week, “walls” of flame tore through the towns of Talent and Phoenix in the Rogue River Valley....
University of Nevada, Reno researchers use the popular Lamoille Canyon recreation area to dig deeper into wildfires’ possible effects on...
by Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections Climate change appears to have driven an ongoing 25-year shortfall in winter rains and...
An acceleration of warming that started in 2023 continued through 2024, according to the latest annual climate assessment by the American Meteorological Society, as atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase at a quickening rate. By Dylan Baddour, Inside...
By Pedro DiNezio, University of Colorado Boulder and Timothy Shanahan, The University of Texas at Austin A new wave of...
California has tried to eradicate ugly South American swamp rodents called nutria. Shooting destructive nonnative mute swans might be a...
Water Board Draft Update Includes Healthy Rivers and Landscapes The Healthy Rivers and Landscapes program achieved a key milestone July 24 when the State Water Resources Control Board embraced the program as a potential way for water users to comply...
From the Department of Water Resources: A Modern Solution for California’s Water Future The Delta Conveyance Project (DCP) continues to advance as...
A trial over flows in the Kern River, originally set for December 8 this year, was kicked 15 months into...
By Lester Snow, Director of the California Department of Water Resources and Secretary for Natural Resources under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Since the 1960s, governors of both parties, quite different in their priorities, have struggled to protect water deliveries from the...
A coalition of over 200 organizations from throughout California today called on Governor Newsom and the California Legislature to immediately...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Residents of the Diablo Grande housing development in the foothills west of Modesto hope a...
Expert Panel Meeting Reveals Opposing Visions on N Fertilizer Limits By Jane Sooby As the California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) inches toward regulating surface and groundwater pollution by agriculturally-sourced nitrogen, the regulatory framework continues to evolve....