By Leslie Hart, College of Charleston and Miranda Dziobak, College of Charleston Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One. Tiny...
By Caleb Hampton The value of farmland in parts of the San Joaquin Valley, California’s agricultural heartland, has fallen rapidly this year as commodity prices lag and implementation of the state’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act casts a shadow on the...
Human-driven changes in gravel and salmon size impact spawning success by Tiffany Dobbyn, UC Davis Chinook salmon are facing unprecedented challenges as their once-thriving populations struggle to survive. A new study published in the journal Ecosphere suggests that decades of...
At Supreme Court next week, agency authority returns to center stage By Kelsey Reichmann The Supreme Court’s upcoming review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory authority over wastewater discharge pollution is likely to highlight bitter divides over the court’s role...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released a Discussion Draft Implementation Plan and Guidelines for the Delta Conveyance Project’s Community Benefits Program (CBP). The implementation plan provides more detail about how the CBP could...
