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DAILY DIGEST, 9/9: Trump administration tells California its key water plan is ‘unworkable’; How does El Niño impact the weather?; Hoopa Valley Tribe and CDFW announce historic fishery restoration partnership; If Colorado River compact heads to Supreme Court, ‘everybody loses,’ experts say; and more...
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (210+ words) Several news sources featured in the Daily Digest may limit the number of articles you can access without a subscription. However, gift articles and open-access links are provided when available. For more open access California water news articles, explore the…...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: NOAA Fisheries takes a ‘sharp turn away from science’
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (857+ words) In July, the Trump administration relegated endangered leatherback turtles, sea lions and whales to mere collateral damage in its race to profit from the oceans. Now, fisheries science is in the government’s crosshairs. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)…...
SCRIPPS: How does El Niño impact the weather?
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (334+ words) By Lauren Fimbres Wood, Scripps Institution of Oceanography The Pacific Ocean’s El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) occurs irregularly but can have major impacts on global temperature, weather patterns, coastal hazards, and marine ecosystems. While El Niño has often been associated with…...
SCRIPPS: What is El Niño and what makes this a very strong El Niño?
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (468+ words) By Scripps Institution of Oceanography El Niño’s effects can be powerful — the El Niño-driven ocean warming can increase global temperatures, alter atmospheric patterns, raise sea-levels along coastlines, and impact marine ecosystems. UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has put…...
YALE CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: The next water crisis is beneath our feet
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (1130+ words) By Sanket Jain, Yale Climate Connections As groundwater warms, dissolved gases become less soluble, while organisms underground can consume oxygen more rapidly. Because many aquifers already contain little oxygen, modest warming could make them even more oxygen-poor. In some aquifers,…...
UC BERKELEY: New digital tool shows where exactly California’s water goes — and how climate change might disrupt it ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK | California Water News Central
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (266+ words) By Kara Manke, UC Berkeley To top it off, climate change is intensifying California’s already dramatic dry and wet cycles. After surviving more than a decade of severe drought, the state is now bracing for the impact of this year’s…...
SCRIPPS: Study: Reservoir management system could save California $150 Million every year ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK | California Water News Central
1+ week, 4+ day ago (580+ words) By Scripps Institution of Oceanography A new study from the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego finds that improved weather and water forecasts could help California gain more value from…...
COLORADO NEWSLINE: What climate science tells us about the causes of the Colorado River crisis
2+ week, 3+ day ago (714+ words) by Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline Elected officials from across Colorado’s political spectrum continued a 68-year-old tradition last week when they took to the stage at the annual summer conference of the Colorado Water Congress in Steamboat Springs. First convened by…...
DELTA SCIENCE PROGRAM: Final 2026 Delta Science Plan: Strengthening Science in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
2+ week, 3+ day ago (189+ words) From the Delta Science Program: The Delta Science Program is proud to share that, following years of development and extensive engagement with the region’s science community, the 2026 Delta Science Plan: Strengthening Science in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is now available…...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: The biggest carbon polluters are to blame for half of Western water lost to climate change, ‘groundbreaking’ paper says ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK | California Water News Central
2+ week, 4+ day ago (530+ words) From 2014 to 2024, climate change sapped over a third of the region’s typical annual snowpack and decreased streamflows by about 13 percent, the authors found in the paper, which appeared in Nature’s Communications Earth and Environment journal. About half of those losses…...