By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Groundwater agencies in Kern County have been given more time to improve their groundwater sustainability plans and potentially avoid state intervention. Citing significant progress in the agencies’ plans to bring the critically overdrafted Kern County...
Atmospheric rivers earlier this month allow for another boost to expected water supply for Californians and farmland From the Department of Water Resources: Today, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced that recent storms have allowed for another increase to...
By the National Park Service The Legacy of Salmon and the Impact of Human Activity on Clear Creek For millennia, Northern California Native Americans, particularly the Wintu, relied heavily on salmon harvested from Clear Creek and the Sacramento River for...
Stone Center researchers uncover new link between species diversity and resilience From UC Berkeley’s Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship New...
By NASA’s Earth Observatory As part of a broader effort to improve understanding of sea level rise, researchers have published new estimates of California’s vertical land motion—also known as uplift and subsidence—between 2015 and 2023. They detailed where land beneath...
By Alex Fox, Scripps Institution of Oceanography El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the Southwestern United States, respectively. In 2023, however, a La Niña year proved extremely...
