The tiny delta smelt is one of the best indicators of environmental conditions in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, an ecologically important estuary that is a major hub for California's water system — and ...

Key TakeawaysWhile experts know that microbes influence important processes like the cycling of nutrients through ...

The Yellow River Estuary in Dongying City, in East China's Shandong province, is China's first combined land-sea national ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now investigating claims that California’s management of the state’s largest estuary has ... failure to update Bay-Delta water quality standards ...

The Yellow River estuary in Dongying ... Official records indicate that the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve now hosts 374 bird species, establishing itself as a crucial hub for ...

The thirst of California’s 40 million residents and the ravages of climate change has the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta – the state’s most important water source and the West Coast’s largest ...

Riordan said the hope is to re-establish the fish in the Delta. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's website states the fish is currently endemic only in the San Francisco Estuary.

The Metropolitan Water District's board is set to vote in December on whether to spend $141.6 million for planning of the proposed Delta tunnel project.

The delta is the largest estuary on the West Coast and it supplies water for thousands of farms and an estimated 25 million Californians. Planners said the project would take more than a decade to ...

The Environmental Protection Agency urged California water regulators to protect tribal cultural practices in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta ... water stays in the estuary.

Longfin smelt were once one of the most abundant open-water fishes in the San Francisco Bay Estuary — commercially important fish, key to the Bay food web. Today the species' numbers have plummeted to ...