As rising global temperatures shift snow to rain, mountains across the Northern Hemisphere will be hotspots for extreme rainfall events that could trigger floods and landslides – potentially impacting a quarter of the world’s population By Lauren Biron, Berkeley Lab...
DRI contributes to research concluding lower-elevation ski resorts could lose more than 70 percent of their natural snow supply By the Desert Research Institute DRI’s Benjamin Hatchett, Ph.D, and Michael Dettinger, Ph.D., coauthored a new study in the journal Climate...
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation, which has a huge influence on global weather patterns, isn’t behaving as computer models predicted. That’s puzzling scientists. By Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections Nothing has a bigger influence on year-to-year variations in the global climate...
As storms get warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up. By Jake Bittle, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. California is no stranger to big...
By Keith Musselman, University of Colorado Boulder, The Conversation Another round of powerful atmospheric rivers is hitting California, following storms...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, Jeanine Jones took the commissioners through the history of past droughts and the lessons learned. As Division Chief for Interstate Resources Management at the California Department of Water Resources, Ms. Jones...
