New federal guidelines could determine how Southern California manages dry-year reliability after 2026. The Colorado River is under increasing pressure...
By Cariad Hayes Thronson In late June, a controversial new reservoir project in Northern California received a commitment for nearly $269 million in additional state funding, even as the State Water Resources Control Board weighs comments on a draft water...
A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service and you will receive notification of this post on Friday mornings. Readers on daily email service can add weekly email...
From UC Irvine: On a summer afternoon in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain pond can look calm and still, reflecting granite peaks and alpine sky. But beneath the surface, these small, shallow waters are anything but stable. In fact, they...
Advances in attribution science have made it possible to blame climate change for extreme events with confidence. Such knowledge could be used to strengthen litigation against fossil fuel companies. By Grace van Deelen Scientists have gotten much better at parsing...
by Alastair Bland Biologists studying the San Francisco Estuary’s endangered fishes are trying to unpack a puzzling but encouraging uptick of endangered longfin smelt in a small North Bay watershed. With the fish declining in most of the estuary, time...
