Category: Science News

In science news this week: Check-Up On San Francisco Estuary Health; Which Bay Area Salamander Are You?; What Happened to Commercial Crab Season?; Atmospheric river storms create $1 billion-a-year flood damage; Do Hawks Eat Pets?; Studying water quality with satellites and public data; and more… Check-Up On San Francisco Estuary Health “The San Francisco Estuary covers a large swath of […]

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In science news this week: The Twilight World of Gray Foxes; Fish in California estuaries are evolving as climate change alters their habitat; Coastal fog linked to high levels of mercury found in mountain lions, study finds; In the Sierra, scientists bet on ‘survivor’ trees to withstand drought and climate change; A lifetime of noise: what are the costs?; Hide […]

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In science news this week: Can the long-lost abalone make a comeback in California; How to Start Adapting to California’s “Precipitation Whiplash”; Bustin’ Berms: The Restoration Of Tule Red; When Turkeys Attack; Research sheds new light on earthquake that killed 9,000 people; Silver-backed chevrotains have been ‘rediscovered’ by science after 29 years; and more… Can the long-lost abalone make a […]

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In science news this week: Bustin’ berms: The restoration of Tule Red; Researchers look to wetlands to increase Delta water quality; What’s That Fish Jumping at the Shallow Bay’s Edge?; The Curious Case of the Jerusalem Cricket; It’s all in the genes: how water pollution keeps silver carp at bay; Best of Frenemies: Unexpected Role of Social Networks in Ecology; Dozens […]

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In science news this week: What We Can Learn about the Coast from Sick Sea Otters; Saving the Vaquita: New Promises and New Threats;  Genetic Time Machine: Insights from Century-old Salmon Scales; Streamside Vegetation Can Capture Pesticides; 50 Fish, 50 States: Small Stream Wonders; and more… What We Can Learn about the Coast from Sick Sea Otters “Melissa Miller’s job […]

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In science news this week: Unprecedented movement detected on California earthquake fault capable of 8.0 temblor; California rolls out first statewide earthquake early warning system; Fish & Feathers: Salmon Promote Songbird Diversity; Wrapping Up a Welcome Water Year; The Antique Technology Still Taking the Ocean’s Pulse; Sockeye salmon to return to Okanagan Lake for first time in over 50 years; […]

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In science news this week: Chinook Salmon Flocking to Revitalized San Joaquin River; California power shutdowns raise air pollution worries; Our energy grid is vulnerable. Locally sourced power may be the answer; On the Northwest’s Snake River, the Case for Dam Removal Grows; Ancient Maya canals and fields show early and extensive impacts on tropical forests;  Researchers map the evolutionary […]

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In science news this week: Otherworldly worms with three sexes discovered in Mono Lake: Valley Fever the Focus of Public Event; Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress from climate change; How Monarch Butterflies Evolved to Eat a Poisonous Plant; Hurricane Dorian Was Worthy of a Category 6 Rating; Restoring Emiquon’s “Wetland of Dreams”; and more… Otherworldly […]

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  In science news this week:  The Largest Land Sale in California; 240 Cubic Miles Of Magma Was Just Discovered Beneath California’s Supervolcano; The Birds Come Back to the Bay; New proposal for expanded killer whale critical habitat reflects latest science; Warm It Up: Balancing The Needs Of Sturgeon, Salmon, And Humans; and more… The Largest Land Sale in California […]

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