In 2015, after four years of drought, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California hit a record low. Global warming is to blame for a quarter of that …
California Gov. Jerry Brown announced the state’s first-ever statewide mandatory water restrictions on Wednesday, coinciding with the finding that the state’s mountain snowpack — a lifeblood of the thirsty state’s …
Maps from NASA’s Airborne Snow Observatory recently gave water resource managers in California precise information about snowpack and water availability that they have always wanted but never had before. The …