GRIST: Why thinning a forest could get you more drinking water

Grist

Wildfires and watersheds

March 6, 2026

Scientists have shown how actively managing forests to prevent wildfires can also boost the snowpack, a critical source of hydration...

PRESS RELEASE: SF Baykeeper pursues appeal against Water Board amid extinction crisis

San Francisco Baykeeper

Policy and regulation

March 6, 2026

Native fish populations are declining at an alarming rate while state regulators have failed to act From the San Francisco...

PRESS RELEASE: Conservation groups and Tribes request release of overdue state report on 2022 Merced River drying

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Planning and management

March 6, 2026

Press release Friends of the River, American Rivers, Big Sandy Rancheria, and the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation have formally requested...

UC DAVIS: Study improves understanding of food safety risks in California Central Coast produce

UC Davis

Agriculture

March 6, 2026

Environmental study with the FDA, UC Davis Western Center for Food Safety, CDFA and partners examined pathogen movement through the...

EDWARD RING: Building the Abundant Water Coalition

Edward Ring

Policy and regulation

March 5, 2026

By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center If enough people in California agreed...

SJV WATER: As promised, state delivers tough subsidence guidelines prompting some valley water managers to cry foul

SJV Water

Groundwater News

March 4, 2026

By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Though some valley groundwater managers say new state guidelines “move the goal posts” on subsidence,...

NOAA: West coast waters experiencing another large marine heatwave

NOAA Fisheries

Ecosystems

March 4, 2026

NOAA scientists track growth of heatwaves that can affect fisheries. A massive marine heatwave has dominated waters off the West...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: EPA pushes back on drinking water fluoridation regulation

Courthouse News Service

Policy and regulation

March 4, 2026

The EPA claims a federal judge “commandeered” a case when he determined the agency needed to investigate safe fluoride levels...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Ninth Circuit rebuffs EPA’s relaxed freshwater pollution limits

Maven

Policy and regulation

March 4, 2026

Easing the amount of cadmium allowed under the Clean Water Act is an agency action, so the EPA should have...

SIERRA NEVADA ALLY: How are water managers adapting to a smaller Sierra snowpack?

Sierra Nevada Ally

Climate change

March 3, 2026

Warming winters are reshaping runoff. With less snow to rely on, water managers are navigating a future defined by rain,...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Conservation groups sue feds to save fish from California water flows

Courthouse News Service

Water project operations

March 3, 2026

The groups claim that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has failed to abide by restrictions on the harming, trapping or...

STATEMENT: California submits comments on Colorado River EIR, reiterates commitment to collaborative, durable solutions that equitably distribute risk and protect the river

Colorado River Board of California

Colorado River

March 3, 2026

From JB Hamby, Colorado River Commissioner, State of California Today, California submitted comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for...