Environment

Elementary students gather at CSUS for 29th Nature Bowl

By Richard Chang - Updated: Sunday, May 19 2013 - 8:18 am

About 150 students from 24 Northern California schools gathered Saturday at Sacramento State for the 29th annual Nature Bowl competition.

Nature Bowl Finals

Sacramento-area experts part of massive flood-control project

By Mark Glover - Published: Wednesday, May 15 2013 - 11:43 am

Sacramento-area officials with the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada-based professional services and design consultant company Stantec Inc. will be part of a massive flood-control project in New Orleans.

Steinberg floats legislation for governing proposed Delta tunnels

By Matt Weiser - Updated: Sunday, May 12 2013 - 2:57 pm

California's state Senate leader has an idea to resolve mistrust generated by Gov. Jerry Brown's plan for two giant water diversion tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: new legislation that would lay out regulations for how the tunnels would operate.

Corps will discuss plan to fix levee, with possible closures on Watt Avenue

By Matt Weiser - Updated: Wednesday, May 8 2013 - 8:09 am

Plans to repair the American River levee under Watt Avenue in Sacramento could result in lane closures, and the public is invited to a meeting on the project May 23.

3 million hatchery salmon released into American River in Sacramento

By Matt Weiser - Updated: Wednesday, May 8 2013 - 7:52 pm

State Department of Fish and Wildlife officials on Monday and Tuesday released 3 million juvenile salmon at the mouth of the American River in Sacramento.

Three Million Chinook Salmon Released into Sacramento River

Sea lions hanging out on docks, banks of Sacramento River

By Bill Lindelof - Updated: Tuesday, May 7 2013 - 8:24 am

A trio of sea lions are busy delighting Old Sacramento patrons and probably frightening more than a few fish.

Fishing Line: Week of May 6, 2013

Dying bees raise alarm for humans

By Susan Sward - Updated: Sunday, May 5 2013 - 4:04 pm

To say the honeybee is under attack worldwide is not an alarmist pronouncement.

Honeybee woes are costly for Valley almond growers

Big trout saved from close call with extinction

By Tom Knudson - Updated: Sunday, May 5 2013 - 12:06 pm

What's unfolding here is a regionwide fish story about the one that didn't get away, a tale of loss, discovery and restoration that reaches from Utah across the Great Basin to Pyramid Lake and up the Truckee River into the snow-clad Sierra Nevada around Lake Tahoe.