“This nefarious project,” said NRDC forest advocate Rita Vaughan Frost, “will threaten the health of south Stockton neighborhoods, pollute the environment and waste precious time and energy that ...

A major compounding factor was likely the downstream effects of two unusually wet winters the Southern California region saw ...

Epic events like the Southern California wildfires do not have a singular cause. While we don't yet know the official causes of the fires, we do know that the weather and climate conditions when ...

“We’re doing great in the northern half. We’ve had that big atmospheric river series of storms in November and a few others in December,” Reising said. “So that’s a great start for the ...

Conditions higher up in the atmosphere helped to further enhance winds at the surface. Cold, dense air associated with a low pressure system in the upper atmosphere was moving over Baja California.

Around Fort Bragg, CA, massive waves persist off the coast, and the moisture from the Atmospheric River will persist in bringing valley rainfall and mountain snowfall inland." After the rain picks ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher ...

Completed in 1954 to impound the Kings River about 25 miles east of Fresno, Pine Flat Dam stands 440 feet tall. The study ...

Officials are warning that the Los Angeles wildfires could cause devastating impacts long after they've been extinguished, particularly in how the burn scars respond to severe weather events.

In the 1990s, scientists began to use the term "atmospheric river" to refer to strips of water vapor in the air that can be as narrow as a few hundred miles wide, but thousands of miles long. They ...