Colorado River users are in tense negotiations over the critical waterway’s future as climate-driven drought and overuse continue to diminish its flows. The federal proposal may not help much. By Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News The Biden administration on Wednesday...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Amid stalled negotiations over how to manage the troubled Colorado River in the coming decades, the federal government offered clashing states four different management options for the river Wednesday. The highly anticipated proposals released by...
By Chad Hecht, University of California, San Diego The West Coast’s rainy season has arrived in force, as an atmospheric river carrying moisture from the tropics joins a bomb cyclone off the Pacific Northwest coast. Heavy, wet snow began falling...
From the Delta Stewardship Council: The Delta Stewardship Council has published a draft Adaptation Plan as part of its climate initiative, Delta Adapts. The draft details strategies and actions to improve regional resilience to climate change, including adaptation costs and...
The Bureau of Reclamation is currently developing the post-2026 operational guidelines for managing the Colorado River system reservoirs. The guidelines...
From the Center for Biological Diversity: Reservoirs, a major component of California’s water storage system, are a significant source of climate-warming emissions, releasing more greenhouse gases across the state than 300,000 gas-powered cars in a year, according to a report...
