In mid-November 2021, a great storm begins brewing in the central Pacific Ocean north of Hawai‘i. Especially warm water, heated by the sun, steams off the sea surface and funnels into the sky. This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online … Read more
Meet An Ancient, Amazing Fish in Need of an Image Makeover
Cape Horn is a concrete and earth-filled dam on the upper Eel River in Mendocino County. About 140 miles north of San Francisco, the dam was built in 1907 and blocks the waters of the Eel to form the Van … Read more
How Laura Cunningham Became a Signature Artist for California’s Former Landscapes
What did natural California look like before the arrival of Europeans? Laura Cunningham paints it.
Big Rain Leads to a Big Year for Salmon
Record-breaking rainfall drenched much of the Bay Area in late October and again around Christmas, leading to flooding, power outages, snarled traffic — and a great season for a fish that has had it rough in recent years. For East-Bay … Read more
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?
New project gives ‘snapshot’ of CA’s wild salmon populations
A new project from The Nature Conservancy looks into the state of California’s wild salmon populations.