Lake Tahoe gets a good health report Daily Democrat September 1, 2010 UC Davis researchers noted several bright spots in their annual Lake Tahoe health report, issued Tuesday: The 2007 Angora Fire...

48K gallons sewage spilled into Bay Area lagoon Merced Sun-Star August 31, 2010 About 48,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled into a residential lagoon in Redwood City last week, nearly 10 times more...

Students build first rain-powered fish hatchery in Oregon The Daily Astorian By Deeda Schroeder August 21, 2010 There's a poison that's plagued fishery students at Warrenton High School for years....

Algae lingers along county's coast San Diego Union Tribune By Mike Lee August 18. 2010 A large bloom of green algae continues to color the county's coastal waters a week after the effects were fir...

Toxic levels of oil found in gulf area crucial to fish Los Angeles Times By Sara Kennedy August 18, 2010 Scientists have found evidence that oil has become toxic to marine organisms in a section o...

Mass die-off at coral reef triggered by 93-degree ocean Live Science August 17, 2010 One of the most destructive and swift coral bleaching events ever recorded is underway in the waters off Indone...

"Didymo" Alert Calfish Press Release August 16, 2010 Sections of the Bear River in Central California are infested with the algae Didymosphenia geminata, also known as "Didymo" or "Rock Snot." Dr....

Weatherbird returning to Gulf to look for signs of oil The Tampa Tribune By Rob Shaw August 6, 2010 They will comb the waters and the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for clues. They will visit areas...

Group seeks opinion on new water standards Courthouse News Service By Karina Brown August 4, 2010 Two federal agencies never finished their assessment of whether new water quality standards for to...

OSU studies rising coastal ocean acidity KGW News By Keely Chalmers August 4, 2010 A team of Oregon State University scientists set out Tuesday on the research vessel Wecoma to study coastal ocean...

Oregon limits dredges for gold in salmon streams SeattlePI By Jeff Barnard August 3, 2010 Small-time miners running suction dredges to glean flecks of gold from salmon streams face tighter regulat...

Previous money unspent as leaders urge new bond The San Francisco Chronicle By Wyatt Buchanan August 1, 2010 As California grapples with chronic and massive debt, state leaders are pushing voters ...

Parts of Louisiana fishing ground reopened Red Orbit July 31, 2010 Louisiana said that it has reopened wide swaths of state fishing ground that were closed in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil sp...

Oysters a sign of trouble from Puget Sound acidity The Seattle Times By Craig Welch July 31, 2010 Inside the burbling tubs of the Taylor Shellfish hatchery here, oysters are incubating once again....

Scientists preparing for Gulf oil spill fallout Examiner By Jeffrey Weeks July 21, 2010 Although state officials say there is only a small chance North Carolina waters will be affected by the Gulf...

Mercury in Crystal Springs fish puzzles scientists San Mateo County Times By Julia Scott July 18, 2010 Fish caught in Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir were found to contain dangerously high levels ...

Count of rescued salmon climbs Chico Enterprise-Record July 17, 2010 The final count in the rescue of spring-run chinook salmon along Butte Creek Thursday was 123 fish. State and federal fisheri...

Trapped fish moved to cooler Butte Creek water ChicoER By Heather Hacking July 16, 2010 Workers cast a net across Butte Creek near Estates Way Wednesday morning, corralling dozens of spring-run Ch...

Chemical quality of rivers revealed by freshwater shrimp Science Daily July 11, 2010 Biological markers detect the presence of toxic substances in the environment. In implementing the European wat...

Murky options News Review By Alastair Bland July 8, 2010 As summer heats up, the water temperatures in the lower reaches of the North Fork of the Feather River may rise above 70 degrees Fahrenheit...

Mercury found in fish from S.F. water supply The San Francisco Chronicle By Kelly Zito July 7, 2010 When researchers wanted to test largemouth bass at Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir for mercury l...

Toxic mercury is more at home in seawater New York Times By Sindya N. Bhanoo June 28, 2010 It has long been known that mercury levels in seafood can prove poisonous to humans. Methylmercury, an e...

Recycled water systems ripple out in Bay Area The San Francisco Chronicle By Kelly Zito June 14, 2010 The "whoosh" of the toilet at the new Rite Aid in north San Rafael sounds like any other. Bu...

Impacts of water temperature on salmon, steelhead The Columbia Basin Bulletin June 11, 2010 Remember when you were a child running barefoot -- how you would run quickly over a hot sidewalk, rest ...

Cattle cannot muddy Ore. steelhead streams The Associated Press By William McCall June 9, 2010 A federal judge has ruled that grazing on public land in the Malheur National Forest has led to degra...

Fishery disaster declared for Florida FIS June 4, 2010 US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke determined on Wednesday there has been a fishery disaster in the Gulf of Mexico per the Deepwater Horizon oi...

Legislature rejects study of peripheral canal alternative Stockton Record By Alex Breitler May 31, 2010 The Legislature will not consider the latest alternative to a peripheral canal: a proposal t...

Nine more years for selenium runoff cleanup Stockton Record By Alex Breitler May 28, 2010 Westside San Joaquin Valley farmers will likely get an additional nine years to clean up the water drainin...

Sacramento wrangling over water bond money San Francisco Chronicle By Wyatt Buchanan May 24, 2010 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal includes $1.8 billion from an $11 billion water bond ...

Scientist forced to resign from Delta pollution panel Daily Democrat By Mike Taugher May 23, 2010 A University of Maryland scientist who published a paper this week concluding that ammonium-laden ...

Studies link Sacramento sewage to Delta fish decline The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser May. 18, 2010 Two new studies point to Sacramento's wastewater as the culprit behind declining fish populatio...

Decline of endangered delta smelt, nutrient pollution Physorg May 17, 2010 "While a great deal of emphasis has been placed on ensuring there is enough water for delta smelt, we also need to recogn...

Feds, PG&E warned about declining salmon runs Central Valley Business Times May 17, 2010 Conservation and fishing groups say Monday that they have notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis...

Major US fishery takes a beating after oil spill Associated Press By Alex Ogle May 13, 2010 One of the biggest victims of the huge oil spill slamming Louisiana's economy is the region's largest fi...

Spill in Gulf ‘most devestating' of our time The Ticker By Kerri Jarema May 10, 2010 An April 20 explosion at a BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico has resulted in a massive oil spill with endless deva...

Late spawn doesn't help lake's fishery The Salt Lake Tribune By Terry Knight May 5, 2010 California has been experiencing one of the coldest springs in recent memory and the effect on the fisherme...

Calif. regulates power plants to save marine life The Seattle Times By Robin Hindery May 4, 2010 State water regulators on Tuesday ordered coastal power plants to begin phasing out a cooling proce...

EPA presses pesticide makers to protect salmon The Seattle Times By Jeff Barnard May 4, 2010 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pressing pesticides manufacturers to adopt new restrictions...

Oil spill imperils Gulf Coast fishing industry Bloomberg Businessweek By Aaron Kuriloff and Jim Polson April 29, 2010 Shrimp boats headed to fishing grounds east of the Mississippi River today aft...

Invasive weed spreads through Tahoe, Truckee RGJ.com By Jeff Delong April 26, 2010 Experts plan this summer to try a new way to eradicate an invading underwater weed spreading throughout Lake Taho...

Mercury is higher in some tuna species Eurek Alert April 21, 2010 New research showing that that mercury levels are higher in some species of tuna could help consumers minimize their consumption ...

Oceans' saltiness reaching extreme Discovery News By Larry O'Hanlon April 15, 2010 The supercharging of Earth's water cycle by global warming is already making some parts of Earth's oceans much sa...

Study says U.S. waterways are warming Green Inc. By Sindya N. Bhanoo April 6, 2010 Many streams and rivers in the United States are getting warmer, with the greatest increases in urbanized areas, ...

Medicine residues may threaten fish reproduction ScienceDaily April 5, 2010 Researchers at Umeå University and the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have discovered tha...

Pesticides detected in Washington salmon habitats Eat Drink and Be By Danielle Koagel March 22, 2010 An investigation by the Washington state departments of Ecology and Agriculture has found low c...

Delta water quality continues to decline Mountain Democrat By Roberta Long February 2, 2010 The California Delta, where the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers merge with the San Francisco Bay, look...

Project to place fish-saving gates in Delta stalls The Oakland Tribune January 14, 2010 A plan to place two removable gates in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to keep threatened fish from getting...

Reducing flow rates may bring environmental gains American Institute of Biological Sciences By Jackson Pringle January 2010 Conservation projects often attempt to enhance the water-based transport...

Restoring natural flows can cause ecological harm? The Columbia Basin Bulletin January 8, 2010 Conservation projects often attempt to enhance the water-based transport of material, energy, and org...

Team to tackle Delta water needs The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler January 7, 2010 The question seems obvious enough: How much water does the Delta ecosystem need to survive? There's never be...

Pesticide runoff impacts salmon recovery UPI December 21, 2009 Reducing pesticide runoff from farms and homes could speed the recovery of wild salmon populations in the western United States, biol...

Melting glaciers nourishing oceans with ancient carbon National Geographic News By Christine Dell'Amore December 30, 2009 Alaska's marine animals have an unexpected nutrient in their diets: ancien...

Obama calls for delay in 2-Gates project ThePress.net By Ruth Roberts December 30, 2009 Opponents of the proposed Delta 2-Gates project won the battle if not the war last week when the Obama admin...

Port of Stockton must clean up stormwater flow Environmental News Service December 15, 2009 To improve water quality in the San Joaquin River, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached...

Schwarzenegger, legislative leaders agree to fix delta San Jose Mercury News By Lisa Vorderbrueggen and Mike Taugher October 11, 2009 SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger lifted his threat of a...

Oregon dead zone blamed on climate change Environment News Service October 8, 2009 Climate change is likely responsible for the formation of a large dead zone that has formed off the coast of Oreg...

S.F. Bay's slide in mud worries scientists The San Francisco Chronicle By Kelly Zito October 5, 2009 Millions of tons of sand and clay that Gold Rush miners scoured from the Sierra Nevada have fin...

EPA announces plan to protect salmon Common Dreams September 11, 2009 Today, the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to place additional limitations on the use of three organop...

Bodega Bay scientists weigh impact of ocean acid The Press Democrat By Bob Norberg September 6, 2009 The danger from increasing levels of acid in the ocean, which could devastate California's shel...

Hotter water linked to poor sockeye returns Straight.com By Carlito Pablo August 27, 2009 A UBC fisheries expert's warning from the 1990s now sounds prophetic with this summer's poor returns of Fr...

The conversation: saving the Delta The Sacramento Bee By Daniel Weintraub August 23, 2009 The Delta is in crisis. All the water that flows from the northern Sierra and the Cascades to Southern Ca...

Delta gates may be part of solution The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler August 8, 2009 STOCKTON - Water exporters hope that a $29 million experiment will help replenish their supplies after a one...

Central valley water sensors at risk from budget cuts The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser August 4, 2009 Dozens of critical sensors tracking temperamental Central Valley rivers could blink out next ...

Researchers set sail for the pacific garbage patch San Jose Mercury News By Paul Rogers August 3, 2009 Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollut...

Urban pesticide use is poisoning waterways The Modesto Bee August 2, 2009 A study of Northern California waterways has made some troubling discoveries about a widely used group of pesticides and t...

Water quality issues reduce nighttime spill for fish The Columbia Basin Bulletin July 31, 2009 Federal hydro managers opted this week to reduce nighttime voluntary spill at the lower Columbia Rive...

Giant Alaskan blob mystery solved Fox News July 21, 2009 That big, oily black blob floating in the Arctic north of Alaska? Perfectly natural, say scientists. "We got the results back from the la...

Klamath dams: sediment studies being formulated Siskiyou Daily News By David Smith July 15, 2009 The sediment behind dams along the Klamath River should soon be tested to answer questions from ...

House's $33b energy, water bill will help Valley The Fresno Bee By Michael Doyle July 15, 2009 WASHINGTON - The House today is scheduled to approve a $33 billion energy and water bill that include...

Sacramento area is Delta's top pesticide source The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser July 14, 2009 Urban Sacramento is the leading source of pesticide contamination disrupting the Delta aquatic envir...

Delta gates proposal builds support The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser July 6, 2009 A plan to build gates across two Delta channels has strong support from state and federal leaders, though little ...

Dutch expert offers advice on saving Delta The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser July 1, 2009 Tropical islands and mountain glaciers get all the attention. But the planet's river deltas are the real f...

Pollution experts: Save fish from drugs in water The San Francisco Chronicle By Jeff Donn June 9, 2009 Pollution experts on Tuesday pressed a congressional panel for stronger action to keep pharma...

Most key fishing spots in state polluted The San Francisco Chronicle By Jane Kay May 5, 2009 The most comprehensive survey ever of pollutants in California's lakes and reservoirs has found that on...

Panel: wastewater ammonia 'likely' alters Delta The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser April 23, 2009 A panel of independent scientists has affirmed in a new report that ammonia from urban wastewater i...

Water board addresses Klamath River impairments Siskiyou Daily News By David Smith March 24, 2009 "The Klamath River, from source to mouth, is listed as water quality impaired (by both Oregon and ...

Hearing on suspension of Delta protections set Indybay By Dan Bacher February 11, 2009 Representatives of fishing and environmental groups are urging the public to attend a public hearing in Sacra...

Mining protected as salmon dwindle The Sacramento Bee January 29, 2009 The California Department of Fish and Game said "no" to fish this week and "yes" to gold miners. Even though experts within D...

Port of Stockton Tenants Pollute Impaired San Joaquin River Environment News Service January 26, 2009 The U.S. EPA has ordered four industrial tenants at the Port of Stockton to prevent chemicals ...

Editorial: Time for new rules on suction mining The Sacramento Bee January 20, 2009 It's not news that salmon populations have declined drastically. Last year, regulators voted to ban all salmon f...

Some surface water pollution is ag's Visalia Times-Delta By Pamela Creedon January 14, 2009 The University of California, Davis has a well-deserved reputation as a leading research institution. Ho...

Coastal power plants could face tougher rules The San Francisco Chronicle By Jane Kay January 14, 2009 San Francisco's Mirant Corp. power plant, under fire from the city attorney and environmental...

On the Surface, Ag Doesn't Pollute Water Visalia Times Delta By Don Curlee January 5, 2009 A recent study of water quality by resource economists at the University of California indicates that agr...

Another View: Sanitation Agency Ready to Help Delta The Sacramento Bee By Mary K. Snyder January 4, 2009 Members of the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District are glad to read that The Bee...

Giant gates mulled for Delta, to the chagrin of some The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser January 1, 2009 State and federal water officials are looking to build giant concrete gates across key channe...

My View: Many Delta regulations miss the mark The Sacramento Bee By Laura King Moon December 21, 2008 Every day, Sacramento's wastewater treatment plant sends 13 tons of ammonia downstream to the ...

Baby Fish in Polluted San Francisco Estuary Waters Are Stunted and Deformed UC Davis News & Information December 8, 2008 Striped bass in the San Francisco Estuary are contaminated before birth...

Ocean Acidity Growing Faster Than Once Thought, Impacts Marine Food Webs Columbia Basin Bulletin December 5, 2008 University of Chicago scientists have documented that the ocean is growing more ac...

Trying to halt Delta pumping The Stockton Record By Michael Fitzgerald December 5, 2008 The rape/kill of the San Joaquin Delta is unjust and intolerable enough. What is even worse is that it has b...

Coastal salmon at center of forest debate The Oregonian By Michael Milstein December 2, 2008 TILLAMOOK -- Five rivers pour into Tillamook Bay, and together they are among Oregon's most important ...

Group wants chemical-filled farmland retired San Francisco Chronicle By Kelly Zito December 2, 2008 The giant state and federal pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that funnel water to 25 mi...

Pollution of San Francisco Bay Stunting Growth of Striped Bass Bloomberg By Adam Satariano November 24, 2008 (Bloomberg) -- San Francisco Bay pollution is stunting the growth of striped bass and s...

NOAA Pesticides BiOp Says Three Chemicals Endanger Salmon; Calls For Buffer Zones Collumbia Basin Bulletin November 21, 2008 NOAA Fisheries Service on Tuesday issued a biological opinion that conc...

Wetland restoration will be first in Delta history The Mercury News By Paula King October 28,2008 OAKLEY - The first wetlands restoration project in the Delta promises to turn Dutch Slough into a ...

Change certain for the delta, report says San Francisco Chronicle By Kelly Zito October 23, 2008 With or without human intervention, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta will change radically in...

NOAA Proposes Critical Habitat for Southern Population of North American Green Sturgeon NOAA Fisheries Service September 5, 2008 NOAA's Fisheries Service is seeking public comment on a proposal th...

Warmer World May Mean Less Fish The Earth Institute at Columbia University By Alex Fischer February 22, 2008 MONACO/NAIROBI, 22 February 2008---Climate change is emerging as the latest
threat to ...

Climate change threatens world's fish stocks, UN group finds The Earth Times By DPA February 22, 2008 Monaco - The rising emissions of greenhouse gases and the resultant climate change are adding t...

Stuart sockeye headed to extinction The Vancouver Sun By Scott Simpson February 20, 2008 VANCOUVER - Climate change is pushing two prized Fraser River sockeye salmon populations towards extinction...

It's cold outside, but Lake Superior is getting warmer MinnPost By Ron Way February 20, 2008 DULUTH - Lake Superior is undergoing sudden increases in its water temperatures and dramatic declines i...