WaterPACT Project to quantify and reduce plastic waste in US rivers By Anna Nixon, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Rivers are nature’s highways, supplying nearby areas with life-sustaining water, nutrients, and biodiversity on their journeys to larger bodies of water....
By Robin Meadows The first time Malissa Tayaba visited one of her ancestral village sites on the banks of the Sacramento River, she was in tears. “We are river people, we are salmon people. The river fed us, clothed us,...
Coastal communities, particularly those around large estuaries like San Francisco Bay, face increasing challenges due to sea-level rise and anthropogenic...
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is experiencing continual and often rapid change, making it challenging to predict and prepare for the future. Traditional data and models are no longer adequate to foresee future conditions, and this uncertainty cannot be resolved by...
Wildfire, drought, and temperature are affecting soil moisture in California’s Sierra Nevada. To better understand this, USGS scientists recently began...
by Ariel Rubissow Okamoto, Knee Deep Times It wasn’t the appearance of a flashy, high-ranking California official at the podium, or the review of 35 years of efforts to protect the Bay’s watershed at the beginning of the May 2024...
A new study has unveiled surprising findings about mercury pollution: where it comes from and how it moves through the environment varies significantly depending on the ecosystem. By the USGS In drier regions, most mercury is deposited through rain and...
