Delta Drought Review: How Did We Do?
The stress of an extreme drought can plunge a freshwater-hungry region into crisis mode. Multiple years of high temperatures plus little rain and snowfall from 2012–2016 drained Read More…
Drought
The Winter Water Outlook
California is receiving its first substantial soaking after an unusually dry start to winter. We reported at the beginning of the current water year about the increasing Read More…
Flashback Friday: Ghost Train
Here's a spooky Flashback Friday to get you ready for Halloween weekend. Look at those low water levels from 2015—now that's truly frightening! One side effect of Read More…
Droughts and Floods: California’s Climate Change Conundrum
It’s almost an understatement to call California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta “complex.” This highly altered ecosystem supports one of the most complicated water-management systems in the world. California Read More…
A Drought-Quenching Deluge
Many areas in California are still recovering from the previous weeks of torrential rainfall, caused by an atmospheric river. As large amounts of precipitation have swept across Read More…
Forests of Brown: California’s Mass Tree Die-Off
As the Western drought comes to the end of its fifth year, forests are revealing the toll the drought has taken. While trees have been dying off Read More…
A Drought that Defies the Odds
You have probably seen the recent headlines, “California Enters 6th Year of Drought.” The 2016 water year ended on September 30, marking the end of our fifth Read More…
Rainbow Trout Hit Hard by Hot Water
The Stanislaus River is home to one of the largest populations of rainbow trout in California’s Central Valley, but a new report shows the fish have suffered Read More…
It’s Snow Joke: Fish Need Snowpack
Fish might be the furthest thing on the minds of skiers and snowboarders carving the Sierra slopes, but the amount of mountain snowpack that accumulates in winter Read More…
El Niño and Drought in the Mekong Basin
El Niño may have brought some drought relief to California in 2016, but the same weather pattern has induced drought-related stress in other places around the world, Read More…