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June 25, 2024

Groundwater Declines in U.S. Southwest

Record snowfall has not been enough to offset groundwater losses amid long-term drying and a heightened demand for the resource.

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April 2, 2024

Average is Awesome: California Happy With Latest Snowpack Survey

After years of swinging extremes, state snowpack is at rare average of 110%, setting up good water savings account for year ahead.

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April 1, 2024

Improving Seasonal Water Predictions Using a Machine-Learning River Forecast System

A WWAO collaboration has published a new paper on how to use next-generation satellite snow data to improve seasonal water supply forecasts using machine learning.

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March 28, 2024

California Mountains Face Weather Whiplash

Last month’s massive snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada followed a dry start to winter. Such extremes in precipitation may become the norm.

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March 24, 2024

California Zombie Lake Turned Farmland to Water. Is it now Gone for Good?

Resurrected for the first time in decades by an epic deluge of winter rain and snow, by spring the lake covered more than 100,000 acres, stretching over cotton, tomato and pistachio fields and miles of roads.

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March 21, 2024

NASA Sees Spike in 2023 Sea Levels Due to El Niño

A long-term sea level dataset shows ocean surface heights continuing to rise at faster and faster rates over decades of observations.

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March 13, 2024

Climate Change Weakening River Seasonality in North

Seasonal flow variability is decreasing as climate change alters Earth’s systems, creating challenges for water management.

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March 6, 2024

SWOT Observes Coastal Flooding

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite provides a new view of water on land, at the coast, and in the ocean.

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January 19, 2024

Spring Heat Packs a Punch for Snowpack in Pacific Northwest

New research shows how snowpack loss due to moderate springtime heat can outweigh that of a record-shattering summer heat dome.

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January 10, 2024

US-Indian Satellite Will Monitor Earth’s Changing Frozen Regions

NISAR, the soon-to-launch radar satellite from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, will track changes in wetlands as well as other Earth vital signs.