The research used satellite imagery to identify where winter flooding occurs, which can improve flood risk awareness and inform how to best redirect floodwaters to replenish groundwater supplies. From Desert Research Institute: California’s Central Valley — one of the nation’s...
Increasing interplay among extreme events and land subsidence impacts calls for urgent mitigation and policy action to reduce detrimental ramifications...
By Justin Catanosa, Mongabay The Pacific Ocean fog hung densely over the narrow mouth of the Klamath River in this coastal rainforest in northern California. Redwood, Douglas fir and alder disappeared into the mist. Seals bobbed nearby, hungry and waiting....
From the State Lands Commission: The State Lands Commission has conducted the largest single-site commercial abandoned vessel abatement and site restoration action in its history. Abandoned vessels have plagued waterways throughout the state for decades, but nowhere are they more...
By Edward Ring One of the biggest debates over environmental stewardship is whether a degraded ecosystem is best left completely alone to recover or whether it should instead be restored by increasing human intervention and management. A perfect example of this...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The Kern County Water Agency filed a motion May 30 seeking to remove Kern County Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp from the long-running Kern River lawsuit saying it believes he is prejudiced against the agency....
