On a FEMA color-coded hazard map, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are shaded dark red, indicating an area with ...

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

PFAS concentrations in Los Angeles and Santa Ana rivers exceed federal safety limits, posing serious health risks to ...

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

Kayak, hike or fish at majestic venues along the 60-mile northern stretch of California’s longest river, the Sacramento. The Cascade Wonderland Scenic Highway/Interstate 5 flanks the river as it ...

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 ...

The result of the increase, the simulation predicted, could be that the frequency of atmospheric rivers over Antarctica doubles by the end of the century, with the precipitation that these events ...

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… ...