Photo: Hedgerows are straightforward strips of shrubs or trees roughly 15 feet wide, and they highlight nature’s complex work. (Sierra...
Groundwater Gold Rush
This is the first article in a Bloomberg Green series investigating how private investors are commandeering public water for profit...
Science Stories: Adventures in Bay-Delta Data
The base of the estuarine food web is phytoplankton – microscopic, floating, single-celled organisms drifting on the currents (“phyto” meaning...
How beavers could help the Colorado River survive future droughts
Photo: In this undated file photo, a beaver appears near the shoreline of the Bear Creek which feeds into the...
Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off L.A. coast
Photo: Postdoctoral student Sebastian Krause, left, works with Valentine to retrieve a tube of sediment collected from the seafloor where...