Environment

Rob Roscoe was hoping for a miracle March when he and his fellow Carmichael Water Buffalos met for a beverage and began prognosticating on the final snow survey.

The salmon swam out of the rice fields Wednesday, and they came out fatter than ever.

The public is invited Thursday to a meeting in Sacramento on the state's proposal to build two giant water diversion tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

The state's $23 billion plan to restore native fish in the Delta would continue killing some of those fish at the same rate in drought years, according to a new pile of documents released Wednesday on the project.

Jim Doucette served the Sacramento Fire Department for more than 30 years, and he understood the perils of the job when he accepted it. But there was one hazard he did not anticipate: the effects of burning toxic chemicals embedded in furniture.

Biologist Carol Witham, 56, is a specialist on vernal pools. These patches of land flood with water in the winter, bloom with flowers and aquatic wildlife in the spring and stay dry in the summer.

Less than a mile from Death Valley National Park is one of the most well-preserved historic mining camps in America: Ryan, California. Here, for select tour groups, scientists and guests, history comes alive.

It may be the most ambitious habitat restoration project ever conceived in the United States.

The Davis City Council approved rate hikes late Tuesday to pay for the Surface Water Project that will draw water from the Sacramento River, supplementing the groundwater the city has long relied upon.

The public is invited to a meeting today in West Sacramento to learn about a plan for two massive water diversion tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

The manufacturer of d-CON, a widely sold and popular brand of rat poison, is taking the rare step of challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to prohibit the over-the-counter sale of one of the nastiest and most effective of the poisons sold to consumers.

Homeowners in the Dry Creek floodplain are required to have flood insurance that can cost more than $1,000 a year, and federal changes are expected to push rates even higher.

Herbicide spraying began Monday in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to control water hyacinth, an invasive water weed that has exploded in the region over the past nine months.

From the Hyde Park mound in West Fresno, you can see the city landscape quickly go from residential to industrial park. You can smell it, too.

A massive proposal to build new plumbing in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California's most important water supply, began trickling out Thursday as state officials released hundreds of pages of draft planning documents.

The "City of Trees" showed Tuesday night just how much an acre of trees is worth.

Goodbye, farm. Hello, subdivision. Despite talk of smart growth, urban Sacramento didn't check its sprawl in the past 10 years, but ballooned instead, spreading out at a faster pace than in decades past, according to a Bee analysis of new census figures.

Today, California's Sierra Nevada - one of the world's great mountain ranges - is suffering a slow death. Almost everywhere there are problems: polluted air, dying forests, poisoned rivers, vanishing wildlife, eroding soil and rapid-fire development. Even Muir's holy ground, Yosemite National Park, is hurting: Much of its forest has been damaged by ozone.