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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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