Heavy groundwater pumping during California’s 2020-2022 drought caused the ground in the Sacramento Valley to sink faster than expected, permanently reducing the aquifer’s ability to store water, according to a new study published on Monday. By Quinn Welsch, Courthouse News...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The official tally shows Kern County water districts are only willing to chip in $11.7 million of $33 million requested by the state toward the planning phase of the so-called delta tunnel, according to figures...
Hot, dry conditions set the stage, but it takes a short-lived local window of opportunity to produce an extreme wildfire By David Hosansky, NCAR Hot and dry conditions have become synonymous with the risk of extreme wildfires. But a new...
By Manola Secaira, Ag Alert On a hot morning in June, dozens of agave plants took root in the soil of Madera County. The plant has long been grown in parts of Mexico to make tequila and mezcal. But in...
A new climate attribution study shows that heating from greenhouse gases could drive extreme snow droughts in the region every third year by 2050. By Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit,...
