By Byrhonda Lyons, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Known for its starry skies, Joshua Trees and 100-plus-degree heat, California’s vast desert has recently become a hotbed of something else: thieves stealing California’s...
By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters Water plays a lead role in the state’s political theater, with Democrats and Republicans polarized, farmers often fighting environmentalists and cities pitted against rural communities. Rivers are overallocated through sloppy water accounting. Groundwater has dwindled...
By Nate Seltenrich White sturgeon may not typically be considered “charismatic megafauna,” but Veronica Larwood thinks they deserve the recognition....
Acute water shortages prompt urgent action From the State Water Board: With climate change-induced drought reducing water levels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to alarming lows, the State Water Resources Control Board today approved an emergency curtailment regulation with measures...
Rising Voices is a new monthly-ish column from the Water Hub at Climate Nexus. Each month, we’re listening to what California’s leading advocates and organizers have to say about water issues impacting communities around the state. As extreme heat radiates...
Written by Robert Shibatani for Maven’s Notebook We’re now in what some call the summer’s anvil, the heart of the hot season. And while temperatures have moderated somewhat, widespread arid conditions, declining water levels, and large as yet contained wildfires...
