As the climate warms, sources of the water so critical to life everywhere on Earth are drying up.
By the end of this century, communities dependent on freshwater from mountain-fed rivers could see significantly less water, according to a new climate model recently released by University of California researchers.
For example, people who get freshwater from the Kings River could see a 26 percent decrease in river flow.
Extreme changes in seasonality in the Sierra Nevada can have lasting impacts on meadow health and could mean less water and carbon storage in high elevation wetlands, according to research conducted at UC Merced.
Plant photosynthesis was stable for hundreds of years before the industrial revolution, but grew rapidly in the 20th century,
The rapid pace of global change has large impacts on nature, and on the work conservatio
Shakespeare might have been right when he wrote “what’s past is prologue,” but not when it comes to modeling climate change.
When people get near California’s giant sequoias, they usually look up.