“There will be no Miracle March” to bring California more snow, writes @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social
“We’re going to get to April 1st, and we’re going to have some scary snowpack numbers, essentially everywhere,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social @ucanr.edu
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California's already poor snowpack is going to further shrink in the coming week as an unprecedented heat wave strikes the state.
Remember how to use #water carefully.
#climatechange
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San Diego County filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday alleging the Trump administration illegally blocked a public health inspection of the Otay Mesa Detention Center. bit.ly/4dgj0Xb
📸 Adriana Heldiz
The number of accidents kept climbing. In February alone, skiers and snowboarders died at Northstar, at Heavenly, at Mammoth Mountain. But nobody could, or would, tell me if it was more than usual — if the risks of hitting the slopes had somehow changed. Here's why.
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The problem facing California's wine industry: too many grapes and not enough buyers. Exports have also dropped as Canadians have boycotted American wine in response to Trump's tariffs, @iriskwok.bsky.social reports: www.latimes.com/business/sto...
California water officials issued a formal warning to the feds Monday, asserting that current draft plans for managing the Colorado River after 2026 lack a sound legal basis and unfairly shift the burden of drought onto Lower Basin states. #cawater www.ivpressonline.com/news/califor...
The Colorado River quagmire boils down to a simple question, @jfleck.bsky.social writes: "Secretary Burgum: Tell us what you’re going to do." www.inkstain.net/2026/02/in-w...
With cities like Phoenix and Tucson bracing for their allotments of Colorado River water to be slashed, San Diego County’s water agency could sell some of its water to other states by drawing on its ample supplies from the nation’s largest desalination plant. www.latimes.com/environment/...
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
For a century, the United States dominated & influenced conservation around the world--for better and for worse. That era is over.
@biographic.bsky.social has a special issue on the next era of conservation--what it looks like, who's funding it, & what it means for people, species, & ecosystems 🌱
Cities want to stop kids from getting hurt. A lawmaker thinks warning them away from legal gray-area “e-motos” could help. www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Exceptionally warm-to-hot late winter conditions expected across the Southwest through the weekend, peaking Fri and Sat. Numerous daily record highs (and record warm overnight minimums) will be set, along with some Feb monthly records possible. [Thread] #CAwx #AZwx #NVwx
Privacy experts, civil liberties advocates and humanitarian aid workers are surfacing concerns over a federal surveillance system near the California border. An in-depth look at the license plate readers on state highways by @wendyfry.bsky.social @khari.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...
This week's @latimes.com Boiling Point newsletter features must-read climate and environment coverage by @hayleysmith.bsky.social @cvonka.bsky.social @landdesk.bsky.social @ra-becks.bsky.social @brandonloomis.bsky.social & more: www.latimes.com/environment/...
California wants to slash greenhouse gases by electrifying homes and installing six million heat pumps by 2030. Lawmakers are pushing new policies to speed adoption. But some of the nation’s highest electricity rates stand in the way. bit.ly/3ZSla7D
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The Trump administration gave seven states a deadline to reach a Colorado River deal. As they missed it, the governors of California, Arizona and Nevada called their stance "firm and fair." www.latimes.com/environment/...
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
Breaking: California officials voted unanimously to list Central Coast and Southern California mountain lions as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act. bit.ly/4kwyicd
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And for all the state funding and efforts to tackle the environmental harms of cannabis grows, there's no federal funding designated for cleaning them up. No govt agency is comprehensively tracking them. And thousands of them linger on California's public lands.
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Then I found out that that researchers have identified thousands of these sites littering California's public lands, mostly federally-managed forests. calmatters.org/environment/...
This story started out as a simple story about a research study showing pollution from pot grows persists in the soil and stream sediments of California's public lands for months or even years. But it didn't stay that way.
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After quite the lull over the last month, a pattern flip will take place along the West Coast early this week, as storms bring in periods of rain, showers and even feet of mountain snow for some. #cawater www.accuweather.com/en/winter-we...
Hey if you don't know I'm a temporary host for the Scientific American podcast Science Quickly. We are doing an upcoming episode on kissing and we want your kissing stories! (next skeet tells you how to submit)
Another climate feedback loop: Snowpack has trouble sticking around after forests are burned in megafires www.circleofblue.org/2025/water-c...
"The drop (in Lake Powell) is compressing the margin between routine operations and hard infrastructure limits at Glen Canyon Dam as negotiations over post-2026 Colorado River operating rules remain unresolved." www.enr.com/articles/622...
Records obtained by the Times depict dozens of instances in which oversight personnel flagged federal workers cleaning up the Eaton and Palisades fires for disregarding cleanup procedures in a way that likely spread toxic substances. Read more here: www.latimes.com/environment/...
A lot of rain is coming to California. Here’s the precipitation forecast through Christmas morning. 6-8 inches in San Francisco, according to the National Weather Service.
In addition to the brief linked below, @ra-becks.bsky.social wrote a related piece about the “hydrants ran dry” narrative in the LA fires @calmatters.org calmatters.org/environment/...
