Photo: The belly feathers of the Namaqua Sandgrouse can absorb and retain water so efficiently that the male birds can...
Before Western States Suck the Colorado River Dry, We Have One Last Chance to Act
Photo: The Lake Mead reservoir in Nevada is showing a “bathtub ring” because of drought.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times The...
Riding the Restoration Waves: My Estuarine Journey
After 16 years of working in the San Francisco Estuary, including serving as a manager for key regional agencies, I...
Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off L.A. coast
Photo: Postdoctoral student Sebastian Krause, left, works with Valentine to retrieve a tube of sediment collected from the seafloor where...
California’s Central Valley was a landscape of lakes and marshes…
Art: An artist’s 19th century depiction of Tulare Lake, now vanished. (Tulare County Library) …then we sucked it dry. Fly...