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Photo: La Niña has ended and El Niño will form during hurricane season, forecasters say. Here are 6 things to…

Riding the Restoration Waves: My Estuarine Journey

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After 16 years of working in the San Francisco Estuary, including serving as a manager for key regional agencies, I…

When red tide smothered an urban lake, citizen scientists sounded the alarm

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Photo: Shifting tides Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland in cleaner times, above left, and after a devastating algal bloom brought…

The Wild Ones

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People said that women had no place in the Grand Canyon and would likely die trying to run the Colorado…

This sinking isle: homeowners battling coastal erosion

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Photo: A house on the edge of the cliffs at Easton Bavents, Southwold, Suffolk. Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian As sea levels rise,…

The power of water

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Why levees don't work, and the challenge of designing them differently There has been a lot of discussion about why…

This Winter’s Floods May Be ‘Only a Taste’ of the Megafloods to Come, Climate Scientists Warn

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Photo: Climate activist and Pajaro Valley High School senior Denia Escutia,18, stands in the family's mud-coated kitchen in Pajaro on…

Water consumption in West captures attention of lawmakers

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Photo: Floodwaters from the Salinas River fill agricultural fields in Spreckels, Calif., Monday, March 13, 2023. (Nic Coury/San Francisco Chronicle…

Experts weigh in on recent water at ‘Future of Ag’ summit

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FRESNO, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – Farmers, environmental experts, and scientists came together for Thursday’s ‘Future of Ag’ summit at…

Joint NASA mission: first stunning views of Earth’s surface water

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Image: This visualization shows water features on New York’s Long Island—shown as bright pink splotches. Purple, yellow, green, and dark…