California’s forests are facing a growing threat: wildfires. The severity and frequency of these fires are on the rise, fueled...
By Ria Roebuck Joseph | The Center Square California is gearing up for the 2023 fire season with a host...
At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted an article on the connection between the Australian wildfires in 2020 and California’s recent drought. Recent headlines have been proclaiming the return of El...
Fire officials are bracing for the worst as scientists predict that climate change could cause more lightning strikes, which often...
A new study shows that midwinter dry spells lead to dramatic losses of winter snowpack in burned areas By the...
By Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine Rivers of muddy water from heavy rainfall raced through city streets as thousands of people evacuated homes downhill from California’s wildfire burn scars amid atmospheric river storms drenching the state in early January...
When wildfires burn in the west, their heat and airborne particles inflict stronger rain and larger hail upon central states...
FEATURE: How Wildfire-damaged Plastic Pipes Contaminate Drinking water – and What We Can Do About It
Written for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows The first time a reporter asked public health researcher Gina Solomon if wildfires...
By Erika Bolstad, Stateline Don Myron is probably best known as the guy who survived one of the deadliest fires in Oregon’s history by sheltering overnight in a river with a patio chair. So there was never any question that...
Regulators approved “seriously deficient” fire prevention plans, including from PG&E, which sparked California’s deadliest wildfire, state auditor says. By Julie...
Streamflow in the West has been below average since the early 2000s, but a new analysis shows that streams aren’t...
By Kathleen Wong, UC NRS In 2020, a massive lightning storm ignited wildfires across much of Northern California. Among the thousands of acres it charred were multiple coastal watersheds from San Mateo County to Big Sur. For UC Santa Cruz...
By Erica Yee, Cal Matters Droughtsville, California, is in trouble. Its water supply is endangered as multiple crises intensify: worsening...
In the year after the Carr Fire in northern California, USGS researchers found that greater-than-average precipitation moved large sediment loads...
Researchers have already seen drops in Lake Tahoe’s clarity during the fires. The damage could be temporary, or it could last years. Its extent depends on how much soot is released into its famous blue waters. By Rachel Becker, Cal...