Ecosystems – Biology – Animals

Here’s how much Lake Mead could rise after an epic winter and new water cuts

Photo: Intake towers for the Hoover Dam rise above the surface of Lake Mead in April 2023. Will Lanzoni/CNN Lake…

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Sick sea lions, dolphins overwhelming Southern California rescue organization

Photo: A sick sea lion, possibly suffering from domoic acid toxicity, is seen resting on a California beach in June…

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Mapping Beaver Dams with Machine Learning

A new model deploys a neural network to spot beavers’ engineering exploits in aerial and satellite imagery, an approach that…

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Endangered Freshwater Fishes: Does California Lead the World?

Photo: Some endemic fishes of California: Little Kern Golden Trout (top left). SONCC Coho Salmon (top center). Santa Ana Speckled…

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Half the nation’s wetlands just lost federal protection. Their fate is up to states.

A Supreme Court ruling leaves large swaths with widely varying oversight. Photo: Tens of millions of acres of wetlands are…

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Birds Flock to a Resurrected Tulare Lake, Peaking at Nearly the Size of Lake Tahoe

White-faced ibises feed and confab in a flooded field at Kern National Wildlife Refuge, about four miles south of Tulare…

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Fish passage, vehicle crossing project at Dye Creek underway

Courtesy photo/RCDTC — The Resource Conservation District of Tehama County is facilitating modifications for an improved fish passage and vehicle…

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Maui Residents Fight To Save Kihei’s Last Wetlands

County officials continue to approve new building permits close to shore despite rising seas. As the cars whiz by on…

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Central Valley flooding offers birds bountiful water. Will it also poison them?

Photo: Sunset over the Tulare Lake Canal. Farmers fear the canal is inadequately built to hold off the inevitable surge of…

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Russian-Eel River stakeholders effort to find path forward without defunct power plant

Newly formed Russian River Water Forum will consider alternatives without hydroelectric plant that shunted Eel River water into the Russian…

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