It seems anywhere scientists look for plastic, they find it: from the ice in Antarctica, to the first bowel movement produced by newborn babies. Now, researchers are finding that the amount of microscopic plastics floating in bottled drinking water is far greater than initially believed.
The numbers are in, and scientists can now confirm what month after month of extraordinary heat worldwide began signaling long ago. Last year was Earth’s warmest by far in a century and a half.
El Niño is here, but California isn’t seeing the impact, at least not yet. Joe Sirard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Los Angeles, says precipitation for the current water year is generally lagging behind averages.
California’s legislative advisers on Friday lambasted the state’s ambitious proposal to regulate urban water conservation, calling the measures costly and difficult to achieve, “in many cases without compelling justifications.”
California’s Central Coast is an expensive place to grow food. The Pajaro Valley, which stretches for 10 miles along the coast of Monterey Bay, charges farmers for irrigation water from wells, a system that’s far different from elsewhere in the nation, where growers typically water their crops by freely pumping groundwater.
With precipitation and snowpack falling behind normal levels for this time of year, the 40 million people served by the Colorado River have last year’s wet winter to thank for the Basin’s relative stability. Right now, the entire American West is struggling with snow drought. Snowpack for the Upper Colorado River Basin — which includes […]
Researchers Discover Thousands of Nanoplastic Bits In Bottles of Drinking Water
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Maddie Simmons /Los Angeles Timesby Corrinne Purtill and Susanne RustIt seems anywhere scientists look for plastic, they find it: from the ice in Antarctica, to the first bowel movement produced by newborn babies. Now, researchers are finding that the amount of microscopic plastics floating in bottled drinking water is far greater than initially believed.
See How 2023 Shattered Records to Become the Hottest Year
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Maddie Simmons /The New York Timesby Raymond Zhong and Keith CollinsThe numbers are in, and scientists can now confirm what month after month of extraordinary heat worldwide began signaling long ago. Last year was Earth’s warmest by far in a century and a half.
El Niño Not Living Up To Billing In California So Far
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Maddie Simmons /KRON4by Marc SternfieldEl Niño is here, but California isn’t seeing the impact, at least not yet. Joe Sirard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Los Angeles, says precipitation for the current water year is generally lagging behind averages.
California’s Proposed Water Conservation Rules Too Stringent And Costly, Analysts Say
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Maddie Simmons /Bakersfield Californianby Rachel BeckerCalifornia’s legislative advisers on Friday lambasted the state’s ambitious proposal to regulate urban water conservation, calling the measures costly and difficult to achieve, “in many cases without compelling justifications.”
Some California Farmers Pay for Groundwater. Is That Workable?
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Maddie Simmons /The New York Timesby Soumya KarlamanglaCalifornia’s Central Coast is an expensive place to grow food. The Pajaro Valley, which stretches for 10 miles along the coast of Monterey Bay, charges farmers for irrigation water from wells, a system that’s far different from elsewhere in the nation, where growers typically water their crops by freely pumping groundwater.
How Last Year’s Winter Continues to Bail Out the Colorado River
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Maddie Simmons /The Salt Lake Tribuneby Anastasia HufhamWith precipitation and snowpack falling behind normal levels for this time of year, the 40 million people served by the Colorado River have last year’s wet winter to thank for the Basin’s relative stability. Right now, the entire American West is struggling with snow drought. Snowpack for the Upper Colorado River Basin — which includes […]