Science

What’s stopping desalination from going mainstream?

POLITICO illustration/Photos by iStock, Getty, Food & Water Watch Panic over saltwater intrusion in the Mississippi River threatening drinking water…

6 months ago

Crushed rock on farmland pulls carbon out of the air

Rock Dust 2- A spreader unloads crushed metabasalt on a fallowed corn field in the Central Valley. UC Davis researchers…

6 months ago

Super corals, a not-so-super term?

From the deep sea to the arctic frontier and tropical coastlines, corals have formed the foundations of many ecosystems. Coral…

7 months ago

What is the great pacific garbage patch?

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world and is located between Hawaii…

7 months ago

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…

7 months ago

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)…

8 months 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…

8 months 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,…

8 months 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…

8 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…

8 months ago