By Tyler Stalker, Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento’s flood history dates back as far as the city itself. The prospect...
As climate change brings sudden shifts between extreme drought and catastrophic floods, water policy experts urge state resource managers to...
From UC Merced: As wildfires grow in intensity and frequency, it’s vital that agencies and local stakeholders work together to rehabilitate and restore resilience to wildlands in California. This finding is underscored in a paper in the journal Restoration Ecology published...
Water is vital to California. Access to water and ecosystem information helps communities plan for the increasing demands caused by...
Written by Brian Zimmerman, a climate scientist at Salient Predictions. Salient is a startup that utilizes advances in machine learning...
The country’s largest area designated for solar energy, Desert Center shows how sprawls of PV panels impact communities. Even supporters of the energy transition can find dealing with the developments challenging. By Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News This article originally...
By Jane Berg and Rachel Sender, co-published with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute At the end of 2022, 65...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water The powerful, and politically right-leaning Westlands Water District recently teamed up with left-leaning democratic assemblymember...
By Zachary M. Young, Hilary R. Martens, Zachary H. Hoylman, and W. Payton Gardner, University of Montana This article provides an overview of the study, Drought Characterization with GPS: Insights into Groundwater and Surface-Reservoir Storage in California, published in Water Resources Research....
With California experiencing climate-driven extremes in weather, the state is continuing to take aggressive action to protect and expand the...
As power grids rely more on renewable energy sources like wind and solar, balancing energy supply and demand becomes more...
by Robin Meadows In 1990, Gary Estes moved to Auburn, a town of nearly 14,000 in the Sierra Nevada foothills on the North Fork of the American River. Estes, an environmentalist, immediately joined the fight against Auburn Dam. The proposed...
Dr. Sedlak discusses various water challenges and solutions, including water for the wealthy and water for food, with a focus...
By the National Park Service You may know Yosemite National Park for its spectacular scenery, waterfalls, granite rock faces, or...
Report finds that Cal Water’s investments in water efficiency have produced more sustainable per-capita demand, lower water system costs, and lower water bills for its customers Often in droughts, as customers cut back their water use, water bills rise, leading...