Ocean water quality Archives

September 9, 2025

Initially thought to contain the pesticide DDT, study reveals some barrels contained caustic alkaline waste By Alex Fox, Scripps Institution...

THE CURRENT: Human impact on the ocean will double by 2050, UCSB scientists warn

UC Santa Barbara

Ecosystems

September 6, 2025

By Sonia Fernandez, UC Santa Barbara The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study...

EOS: Scrambling to study smoke on the water

American Geophysical Union

Wildfires and watersheds

August 27, 2025

Timely action shows the impact of urban fires on freshwater and marine ecosystems. By Grace van Deelen, EOS As multiple...

Environmental groups sue SeaWorld San Diego over fireworks

The Center Square

Water quality

July 1, 2025

By Jamie Parsons, Center Square Two environmental groups are suing SeaWorld San Diego for allegedly failing to follow its Clean...

NASA: By air and by sea: Validating NASA’s PACE ocean color instrument

NASA/JPL

Ecosystems

June 30, 2025

By Milan Loiacono, NASA In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds,...

NASA Sensor on Space Station Eyes Contamination off California Coast

NASA/JPL

Science Water quality

June 19, 2025

Proof-of-concept results from the mouth of the Tijuana River in San Diego County show how an instrument called EMIT could...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Wastewater treatment plant operators argue they’re not responsible for border sewage pollution crisis

Courthouse News Service

Policy and regulation Water quality

March 20, 2025

Residents of the border city of Imperial Beach claim Veolia failed to stop dumping sewage into the Pacific Ocean and...

PRESS RELEASE: Environmental groups call for action to curb California’s coastal hot spots caused by ocean acidification and hypoxia

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulation

April 17, 2024

Press release from the California Coastkeeper Alliance and the Natural Resources Defense Council: Recently, California Coastkeeper Alliance, the Natural Resources...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Nutrients from wastewater treatment plants may threaten coastal marine life―should California regulate them?

Robin Meadows

Best of the Notebook Ecosystems Notebook News and Features Science

March 7, 2024

Nutrients from human waste boost ocean acidification & hypoxia in CA―wastewater treatment agencies say regulation is premature, environmentalists say it’s...

KNOWABLE: In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, new marine ecosystems are flourishing

Knowable Magazine

Water quality

November 20, 2023

Sea life, stuck to plastic bottles and other human trash, has journeyed far from coastal habitats — and may threaten...

CAL MATTERS: A pivot on desalination plants: California approves project in Orange County

Cal Matters

Water supply augmentation

October 13, 2022

After rejecting a controversial proposal in Huntington Beach, the state Coastal Commission greenlights another in Dana Point. While environmentalists raised...

This just in … State Water Board Adopts Desalination Amendment to Address Environmental Concerns In Desalination Facility Standards

State Water Board

Policy and regulation Water supply augmentation

May 6, 2015

From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board today approved an amendment to the state’s Water...

State Water Board update: Addressing the impacts of desalination facilities

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation Water supply augmentation

August 8, 2013

With at least seventeen seawater desalination facilities currently proposed along California’s coast in such locales as Huntington Beach, Monterey Bay,...