California snowpack off to great start: "We are by no means out of the woods"
The snowpack in California's mountains is off to one of its best starts in 40 years, officials announced Tuesday.
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The snowpack in California's mountains is off to one of its best starts in 40 years, officials announced Tuesday.
With climate change and drought, the state of California is incentivizing not using farmland or fallowing it. The move comes as irrigation in some areas is damaging residential wells.
California remains in the grip of a yearslong drought but recent storms have led to some improvement, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor's weekly report.
The Sacramento Valley received much-needed rain over the last week has boosted the state's water storage in the snowpack, reservoirs, and groundwater storage.
California water agencies that serve 27 million people will get just 5% of what they requested from the state to kick off 2023, water officials announced Thursday.
California's farmland is shrinking due to a severe three-year drought, according to a new report. Researchers on the report found that the state's irrigated farmland shrunk by nearly 10%, which totals 752,000 acres of farmland.
Lake Shasta is at 31% of its total capacity as we enter the fourth year of the drought. But the lake is actually higher now than it was this time last year as the drought has severely cut back on water allowances from the lake.
Nations pledged to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but three new U.N. reports show that the world is on track to hit nearly double that in less than 80 years.
A prediction 90 days in the future shows drought conditions in the central valley but rain and snow in the sierra; according to experts, weather whiplash is common for California.
Volunteers in the South Bay have made water conservation a way of life. Among them, an 8-year-old 'lawnbuster' who's giving back to his community, one drought-resistant yard, at a time.
The wreck, on the muddy shoreline near downtown Baton Rouge, La., is the latest discovery resulting from a severe drought's impact on water levels in many regions.
The "ghost boat" was salvaged and somehow ended up at the bottom of California's largest reservoir.
"This is game-changing," said CEO of company that creates drinkable water from processed produce.
California water officials are predicting that conditions will continue to be warmer and drier.
The official water year concluded Friday, marking an end to a period that saw both record rainfall in October and the driest January-to-March period in at least a century. Scientists say such weather whiplash is likely to become more common as the planet warms.
The past three years have been California's driest on record, a streak unlikely to break this winter, state officials said Monday.
The US Department of Agricultures "Climate Smart Commodities Program," is allocating a total of $130 million dollars in federal money to California farmers to lessen their impact on the climate, including lowering water usage and carbon emissions.
California's drought emergency is expected to get even worse, despite the encouraging rain California saw in September.
The rain has been helpful for firefighters, but will it have a long-term effect?
The vegetation in the hills all throughout the Bay Area was already incredibly parched before the heat wave over the past week dried them out more, further increasing fire risk.
A 22-year mega-drought has caused elevation to drop along the Colorado River, which supplies water to 40 million people in the U.S. and Mexico.
In the face of California’s megadrought farmland across the state is at a crossroads. Some land is now being repurposed to make sure it’s viable for generations to come.
California will be the first state in the nation to install solar panel canopies over canals to combat drought and climate change.
Imagine turning on your tap and no clean drinking water comes out. There are a growing number of domestic wells going dry during the continuing drought. CBS13's Tony Lopez caught up with a woman who's having her water delivered.
Calfire says the number of fires and acreage in 2022 is well below that of 2020 and 2021.
