A coalition has begun an effort to bring back Tulare Lake and its once-vast wetlands on thousands of acres of farmland in the ...

Sewage crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border has resulted in more than 100 billion gallons of contaminated water crossing into California since 2018.

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

Dozens of workers have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in a series of raids that include in LA’s fashion district and at Home Depot parking lots in Southern California.

Arizona officials present details of a new proposal to share future shortages on the Colorado River. The "supply-driven" solution would base allocations on the river's actual flows, not on storage ...

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to stand under a sky that suddenly turns into a river? For millions living along the West ... Read more The post What Atmospheric Rivers Mean for the West ...

This winter’s atmospheric river has been catastrophic. Ten different storms have stuck the California coast in the last three weeks. More than 20 people have died, thousands have been forced to ...

Scientists have discovered signs of sewage in the water at a beach in southern California in NASA satellite images. In their study, researchers examined a large wastewater plume at the mouth of ...

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 (E3SM ...

More information: Mariana J. Webb et al, Wet Antecedent Soil Moisture Increases Atmospheric River Streamflow Magnitudes Nonlinearly, Journal of Hydrometeorology (2025). DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-24-0078.1 ...

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… ...

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such as atmospheric rivers—by 2100, with implications for future sea level rise.