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SCRIPPS: How does El Niño impact the California Coast?
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (221+ words) By Lauren Fimbres Wood, Scripps Institution of Oceanography El Niño is defined by the persistence of warm water in the Pacific Ocean at the equator. This warm water has impacts on global temperature, weather systems and marine life. This El…...
SCRIPPS: How does El Niño impact the weather?
3+ day, 13+ 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…...
EOS: Wastewater can take harmful algal blooms from bad to worse
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (407+ words) By Lisa S. Gardiner, EOS Single-celled algae within delicate glass-like needles, Pseudo-nitzschia diatoms may be tiny, but they can play a huge role in the ecosystems they occupy. “Domoic acid is rough. It’s a neurotoxin. It’s nerve damage.” When types of…...
SCRIPPS: What is El Niño and what makes this a very strong El Niño?
4+ day, 13+ 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, 13+ 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,…...
USGS: In San Francisco Bay, even an exceptionally wet year can't supply enough sediment to keep pace with rising seas, new study finds
2+ week, 4+ day ago (766+ words) From the USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program Extreme rainfall can send huge amounts of sediment rushing off hillsides and into streams. But a new USGS study finds that even an exceptionally wet year may deliver only a…...
SJV WATER: Studies look at “less bad” options for farmers facing groundwater cutbacks
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (715+ words) By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water Growing more drought-tolerant crops could be an option for San Joaquin Valley farmers facing severe groundwater cutbacks, according to two joint studies by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). The studies looked at growing…...
UC RIVERSIDE: Watering smarter, not more
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (753+ words) By Jules Bernstein, UC Riverside Advanced technology can help farmers get to the root of a growing problem ¾ overwatering in an era of increasing drought and water scarcity. A new UC Riverside system can map soil moisture tree by tree,…...
MONO LAKE: UCLA report shows LADWP diversions must change for Mono Lake to rise
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (215+ words) Press release from the Mono Lake Committee On March 17, the State Water Board will hear why Mono Lake has not risen to the elevation needed to protect Mono Lake in the presentation of a new report from the UCLA Center…...
KARLA NEMETH: DWR continues to improve forecasting as spring heats up in California
6+ mon, 13+ hour ago (253+ words) By Karla Nemeth, DWR Director For California water managers, the painfully sunny skies of March 2026 bear striking resemblance to March 2021. In the spring of 2021, the snowpack was, like now, about half of average. Temperatures were breaking records. Then the news…...