“The Blob,” a very warm patch of ocean water off the coast of California that occured from 2013-2016, demonstrated that anomalously warm ocean temperatures can produce unprecedented events, including ...

It could rain for many hours each day in the middle of next week as the edge of one of these storms takes a swing into ...

No water supply from the Pacific Northwest connects into California's systems, contrary to claims from US President Donald ...

While the wet weather may bring an end to a devastating run of wildfires in the state, it could also cause flooding and other hazards.

31, 2025 Trump administration officials began releasing significant amounts of water from two dams in California’s Central ... the need to keep the Pacific Ocean from destroying freshwater ...

“In the 1980s, the hot tap was running slowly, warming up the water by just a fraction of a degree each decade ... and accelerate ice melt. For example, the 2024 California wildfire season was ...

Although this heat flux was caused in part by the El Niño—a climate pattern that typically brings warmer conditions to the Pacific—scientists compared this recent El Niño to the one that occurred back ...

the state’s top environmental official after president trump posted on social media that the u.s. military came into california under emergency powers and, quote, turned the water on, state ...

And the smelt debate flows into another critique of California water policy. "President Trump talked about millions and billions of gallons of water going out to sea and he blamed that on the ...

According to scientists at the University of Reading, the global mean sea surface temperature ... warmth came from steadily increasing ocean water temperatures. One Ancient Part of the Ocean ...