California's aquifers gained an estimated 2.2 million acre-feet of water during the last water year. Gov. Gavin Newsom's ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions of water vapor in the atmosphere, like a river in the sky. These systems gather ...

Hundreds of people working or playing outside – even those who seem healthy – succumb to heat-related illnesses each year.

The disaster response price tag over the last 50 years is 10% of the national debt. This should motivate invention of ...

image: Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Credit: DOE Office of Science, Energy Exascale Earth System Model ...

The research, published June 4 in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, analyzed more than 43,000 atmospheric river storms across 122 watersheds on the West Coast between 1980 and 2023.

Search efforts for Jomarie Calasanz, a 26-year-old woman swept away by fast-moving water in Sequoia National Park, have been scaled back due to hazardous river conditions, and the family has announ… ...

Atmospheric river impacts. Credit: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43017-024-00638-7 A study co-led by Irina Gorodetskaya, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary ...

Three popular California beaches landed on Surfrider’s list of 2024 Beach Bacteria Hot Spots, including sandy spots in San Luis Obispo County and the San Diego area, according to the report.