New federal guidelines could determine how Southern California manages dry-year reliability after 2026. The Colorado River is under increasing pressure after more than two decades of drought, hotter and drier conditions, and continued demands from cities, agriculture, tribes, and ecosystems...
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 Kat Kerlin, UC Davis The University of California, Davis, Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) today released its “Tahoe: State of the Lake Report 2026” which presents data from 2025 in the context of the long-term record. The report provides...
From California Agriculture Since 2016, California’s Healthy Soils Program (HSP) has allocated more than $162 million from cap-and-trade proceeds through California Climate Investments to improve soil health and sequester carbon (C). Program funding has supported both grower adoption of practices...
