Category: Science News

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 […]

  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 […]

In science news this week: Paiute Cutthroat Trout Reintroduced to Native Habitat in High Sierra Wilderness; Machine learning aims to improve water management in dryland agricultural ecosystems; As Temperatures Change, What Organisms Move North to California?; Irrigation sources used by cannabis cultivators in Northern California; The next big effort in AI: keeping L.A.’s water flowing post-earthquake; New $100M Innovation Hub […]

In science news this week: Providing Flows for Fish; Managing a Non-Native Delta Ecosystem; Rare California trout species returns to native habitat; New proposal for expanded killer whale critical habitat reflects latest science; How rock expands near soil surface in Southern Sierra Nevada; Salt marshes’ capacity to store carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution; Are existing laws enough to cope […]

In science news this week: Climate Change and Competition Reduce Freshwater Rearing in Salmon; Creating a legacy for South Sacramento: Habitat conservation plan balances urban growth with open space; DWR Awarded Prop 1 Grant to Study Removal Methods of Highly-Invasive Plant in Suisun Marsh; A special weir for special fish; Pulse Flows Expected to Boost Brown Trout Fishery in Owens […]

In science news this week: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and partners are working to improve habitat at the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve; Flying High: Drone Use in Fisheries Research; As temperatures rise, more California forests will burn; A New Way to Measure How Water Moves; New viruses discovered in endangered wild Pacific salmon populations; Seaweed farming as a […]

In science news this week: What’s Killing Sea Otters? Scientists Pinpoint Parasite Strain Genetic Link Found Between Deadly Pathogen and Wild and Feral Cats on Land; Bird Bonanza: Sooty Shearwater Migration; San Francisco Zoo brings red-legged frogs back to Yosemite; Radio show: Managing Shasta Dam For Cold- and Warm-Water Fish; Beaver reintroduction key to solving freshwater biodiversity crisis; Tiny Toxins: […]

In science news this week: Shasta dam releases can be managed to benefit both salmon and sturgeon, study finds; New maps show how little is left of West Coast estuaries; Understanding How Fish Deal with Drought; The crash of the kelp forests; New Technologies Reducing Uncertainty in Estimation of River Flow; Are we really protecting rivers from pollution? It’s hard […]

In science news this week: Back-to-back low snow years will become more common; New mapping reveals lost West Coast estuary habitat; Voracious Flowers of the Tidepool; Ocean Acidification Alters Salmon’s Sense of Smell; Fear of Human Voices Can Shape an Ecosystem; Do Salmon Make Decisions as a Group?; Airborne Plastic Is Blowing All the Way to the Arctic; and more […]