Construction Begins On Emergency Delta Salt Water Barrier
Construction on a $30 million emergency barrier to prevent salt water from entering drinking water supplies began this week in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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Construction on a $30 million emergency barrier to prevent salt water from entering drinking water supplies began this week in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
At least 1,000 snails have turned up dead at a Gilroy business park, prompting an investigation by the county officials, according to a published report.
With 300 days of sunshine a year and miles of bright green lawns, this is Palm Springs, smack in the heart of the Sonoran desert.
An emergency dam is being built in the Delta due to California's drought.
It sounds like something right out of a science fiction movie. A Bay Area company makes machines that capture water from the air, technology that could help during our record drought.
The Bay Area will have a rare chance of hearing thunder as a storm passes through on Thursday.
Growers in Fresno have sawed off large portions of their trees because there's not enough water to keep the dense canopies alive, and spray painting them with a diluted latex paint that acts as a sunblock.
A drone large enough to carry tanks of fertilizers and pesticides has won rare approval from federal authorities to spray crops in the United States.
Californias historic drought is causing an infestation of bark beetles that's destroying trees in the states forest lands.
As if powerful earthquakes, a small South Pacific tsunami yesterday, and a new undersea volcano off the Pacific coast weren't enough, today a massive dose of solar radiation was detected hitting earth.
Warning letters have gone out to residents in Contra Costa County with a vegetation abatement deadline of May 31st as the fire season approaches, but firefighters say it's the drought that will make their job even tougher this year.
Extreme drought conditions have left an estimated 12 million trees dead in California's forests over the past year.
Ants are bad enough when crawling army-style across your kitchen countertops, but when they go airborne, it's an all out aerial assault on your goals for an insect-free household. And when they're mistaken for termites, it can be momentarily heart-stopping, as the two insects looking incredibly similar at first glance.
A new high-tech device makes sure water doesn't go to waste in this drought, by finding leaks in San Francisco's aging underground pipes.
Double earthquakes registering a 2.2 and 2.4 magnitude gently shook the Marin coast along the San Andreas fault Thursday evening.
