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...
Regulators approved “seriously deficient” fire prevention plans, including from PG&E, which sparked California’s deadliest wildfire, state auditor says. By Julie Cart, Cal Matters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As record-breaking drought fuels another...
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...
By Erica Yee, Cal Matters Droughtsville, California, is in trouble. Its water supply is endangered as multiple crises intensify: worsening droughts, competition for scarce supplies, sea level rise, groundwater contamination, earthquakes, wildfires and extreme weather. All of these factors, and...
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...
A new DRI pilot study finds severe water repellency in sand samples after treatment with both hot and cold smoke. By Kelsey Fitzgerald, Desert Research Institute After a wildfire, soils in burned areas often become water repellent, leading to increased...
By Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; John Abatzoglou, University of California, Merced, and Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, McGill University The Western...
The California Fish and Wildlife Journal concludes the 2020 Special Issue installments with the winter quarter’s Special Wildland Fire Issue....
New climate projections could inform long-term wildfire and water resources management strategies in California and Nevada. By Sarah Stanley, EOS Recent years have seen the largest, most destructive wildfires on record in California. Accompanying these extreme events have been extreme...
New study shows impacts of increased levels of evaporative demand as climate grows warmer and drier From the Desert Research...
With much of the state’s water supply originating in the mountains as precipitation on the forested landscape, the health and...
The damage to water systems can linger for years. The cost in just one small town: as much as $150 million. By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters For more than a month after a wildfire raced through his lakeside community and...