The San Joaquin Valley of California, despite supplying a significant percentage of the country's food, is nevertheless a dry, arid place. Fresno, at the heart of the valley, receives just over 10 inches of rain a year on ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2024
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An interdisciplinary collaboration used 600 years' worth of tree rings from the San Joaquin Valley to reconstruct plausible daily records of weather and streamflow scenarios during that period. Modeling based on those scenarios ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2023
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California's extraordinarily wet year brought the state vast quantities of water that have soaked into the ground and given a substantial boost to the state's groundwater supplies, but not nearly enough to reverse long-term ...
Environment
Oct 16, 2023
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Mountains are capped with record snowpack, rolling hills are covered in a rainbow of wildflowers, reservoirs are filled to the brim, and rivers are rushing with snowmelt.
Earth Sciences
May 18, 2023
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California's remarkably wet winter may be several weeks behind us, but flooding remains a significant threat as the majority of the state's massive snowpack has yet to melt, and more snow is forecast for this week.
Earth Sciences
May 2, 2023
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After a relentless three months of heavy rain and snow, California is facing yet another environmental threat—sunny skies and balmy weather.
Earth Sciences
Apr 5, 2023
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A new study by the energy science and policy research institute, Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers (PSE) for Healthy Energy shows that the disposal of over 16 billion barrels of oil and gas wastewater into unlined pits ...
Environment
Oct 15, 2021
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Pima cotton is the predominant variety of cotton grown in California. It's ideal for making premium fabrics for clothing and bed sheets. But Fusarium wilt disease, caused by a soil-borne fungus, can devastate a cotton crop. ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 17, 2021
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Wine grape growers in California and elsewhere face increasing labor costs and severe labor shortages, making it difficult to manage and harvest a vineyard while maintaining profitability. Growers are increasingly turning ...
Agriculture
Jun 8, 2021
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Groundwater is a key resource for water users in California's Central Valley, a major agricultural hub with an economic output of tens of billions of dollars annually. Surface deformation in the Central Valley has long been ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 13, 2021
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