By Yvaine Ye, Colorado University at Boulder With the climate pattern known as El Niño in full force from mid-2023 to mid-2024, global temperatures broke records for 12 months in a row. As one of the strongest El Niño events on...
By Sarah Whichello, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Research Participant with EPA. Estuaries are waterbodies where freshwater from the uplands mixes with the salty waters of the open ocean. The bays, inlets and tidal rivers along a coastline that comprise estuarine...
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...
