Invasive Golden Mussels Upend Life in the Delta
One year after the discovery that golden mussels had invaded the Delta, thick colonies coat boats and piers and threaten water supplies for cities and farms. Yet the state has...
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After 2022’s Fatal Algal Bloom, Scientists Fear the Bay’s Sturgeon Could Go Extinct
At Point Pinole, 21 sturgeon carcasses––some more than seven feet long––lay strewn along a mile-long stretch of beach in late August 2022, baking in the relentless heat. It was the...
Wetlands Help Fight Climate Change, But the Kind of Wetland Matters
Wetlands breathe in carbon dioxide, but can breathe out methane.
After Losing Several Key Battles Over Water, Delta Advocates See Hope in the Last Option Remaining: the Law
Is bad news good news for the Bay and Delta's diminishing flows?
Environmental Groups Oppose U.S. Army Corps Plan to Dredge the Bay for Bigger Oil Tankers
Conservation groups say the environmental assessment avoids considering environmental justice or marine life
Want to Prevent California’s Katrina? Grow a Marsh
These islands in the Delta aren't really islands at all anymore.
Op-Ed: The Delta Tunnels are Dead. Now What?
The executive director of Restore the Delta on what's next after Gavin Newsom ends the Twin Tunnels project.
Naturalist’s Notebook: Freshwater Jellyfish Invade California Lakes and Ponds
Native to China, Craspedacusta sowerbii is found in freshwater lakes and ponds on every continent.
Gateway to the Delta
I’m in another world from the moment I step into the East Bay Regional Park District’s Big Break Regional Shoreline. Here on the edge of the Delta in eastern Contra...
Water, water everywhere
California has been suddenly thrown into one of its perennial water wars, this time with a revived proposal to build a pair of 37-mile tunnels under the Delta to transport...
