Science

NASA-Led Study Pinpoints Areas of New York City Sinking, Rising

Photo: The land beneath the New York City area, including the borough of Queens, pictured here, is moving by fractions…

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Boiling Point: Would filling a new reservoir give off lots of greenhouse gases?

Plans call for building Sites Reservoir in this valley north of Sacramento. (Risa Johnson / Calif. Dept. of Water Resources)…

1 month ago

Did you know? Tools for tracking Lake Tahoe’s clarity were invented at the Vatican

Last week, the current director of the Vatican Observatory paid a visit to Lake Tahoe to see the more than…

1 month ago

El Niño and La Niña multi-year events could become more common

Via UCSB THE CURRENT The Pacific Ocean covers 32% of Earth’s surface area, more than all the land combined. Unsurprisingly,…

1 month ago

Digitizing Data: Tracking Harmful Algal Blooms in the San Francisco Estuary

Photo credit: California Department of Water Resources Earlier this month, I was working my way through my morning emails and…

2 months ago

Navigating the Unknown: Exploring the Use of Decision Making Under “Deep Uncertainty” Approaches

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is undergoing continual and often rapid change.  This poses challenges in predicting and preparing for the…

2 months ago

How Old is the Water We Drink?

Photo: Cozine/Shutterstock Back in 2016, geologists from the University of Toronto announced they had discovered water at the bottom of…

2 months ago

USGS ARkStorm 1.0 study showed high risk of contamination from Tulare lake basin flooding

The US Geological Survey’s ARkStorm studies included extensive analyses of vulnerabilities to flooding.  In 2016, USGS Researchers Geoffrey Plumlee,  Charles…

2 months ago

AGU: Many of California’s threatened species live in reused water — for better or worse

Photo: During the dry season, about 90% of the water flowing into the LA River is treated wastewater discharged from…

2 months ago

PFAS-chomping bacteria kill some ‘forever chemicals,’ scientists say

Photo: University of California Riverside researchers Yujie Men and Bosen Jin have identified bacteria that's able to break down some…

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