Dense populations, aerosols, and cities’ tendency to raise temperatures contribute to higher levels of precipitation in urban areas than in surrounding rural areas. By Carolyn Wilke, EOS Buildings and vast stretches of pavement in dense cities trap and generate heat,...
A commission recommended communities across the globe take steps to address a water crisis that threatens the world’s food security and economic stability. By Lily Roby, Courthouse News Service The Global Commission on the Economics of Water warns the world...
By Jane Berg and Rachel Sender, co-published with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute At the end of 2022, 65 percent of the Western United States was in severe drought, the result of a two decades long mega drought in...
By Zhe Li, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward...
Tribe Receives $18 Million to Restore Newly Accessible Salmon Spawning Tributaries Press release from the Yurok Tribe Building on the success of the winter planting, the Yurok Tribe’s Fisheries Department revegetation crew initiated phase two of a massive revegetation project...
