By Dan Walters, CalMatters Network Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. After its first committee hearing, Assembly Bill 1337 was amended last week, which...
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation, which has a huge influence on global weather patterns, isn’t behaving as computer models predicted. That’s puzzling scientists. By Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections Nothing has a bigger influence on year-to-year variations in the global climate...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The old Buena Vista Lake bed in Kern County will remain mostly dry and continue being farmed by the J.G. Boswell Company despite the coming, epic snow melt. But unlike in Kings County where Boswell...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water It isn’t just water that’s been barreling down the Kern River in this historic water year. Trees, shrubs, trash – even old appliances – have come swirling down the river bed, plucked out by heavy...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Farmers with water rights along the Scott River and Shasta River watersheds in Siskiyou County have faced curtailments of surface and groundwater supplies since 2021, as a result of state actions spurred by a drought...
