San Francisco has a $17 billion plan to save its waterfront from rising seas. Now comes the hard part: funding it.

Radioactive material found at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is fueling fresh concerns about redevelopment and community health.

An interdisciplinary network of scientists and stakeholders is working to understand how saltwater intrusion and sea level rise are affecting rural communities and to help address the consequences.

Groundwater, our most important source of drinking water, faces a wide range of threats. A survey of experts shows that: the challenges are well known. However, effective protection requires better cooperation, more rigorous implementation of existing measures and long-term political commitment.

Watch how a legacy of oil drilling and regulatory failure destroyed one Oklahoma family’s dream home and contaminated another family’s drinking water.

The city is looking into emergency conservation measures as most options for additional water have been tapped or are years from completion.

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Damage to underground infrastructure from groundwater responses to sea level rise can and should be economically quantified Loss functions and life cycle costing are two ways of quantifying econo...

A state judge ruled this week that the Arizona Department of Water Resources illegally changed how it evaluates whether there’s enough groundwater to build new homes in parts of the Valley.

Researchers reviewed what’s known about how coastlines are changing and made recommendations for how to learn more.

Shallow groundwater temperatures are controlled by ground surface temperatures and are influenced by climate change and land cover changes. Deeper groundwater temperature is constant year-round, maki...

Cracks have appeared in a concrete dome holding 120,000 tonnes of contaminated soil and debris from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests.

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Examined syllabi for introductory courses in hydrology The titles, topics, and approaches to assessment varied widely across courses Found limited consensus in how hydrology courses are taught a...

With a Met Office yellow warning for rain in effect people are being warned about the dangers of groundwater flooding.

The Rutgers University Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences invites applications for highly motivated, creative postdoctoral associates with interests in (a) sea-level rise projections and/or (b) ...

One of the jobs facing an early-career scientist, and a developing writer, is to learn what their field’s literature looks like. One of the best tools to that end is the journal club. If you’ve nev…

The practice called ‘manifesting’ lets CAFOs make manure pollution legally invisible and evade liability.

We talk about the floods and what it will take to adapt to rising sea levels in the Bay Area.

New MIT study finds vehicle emissions are the biggest contributor to these premature deaths.

Flooding in Marin County this weekend foreshadows a far wetter future due to human-caused climate change.

This week’s extra high tide could flood shorelines across the Bay Area, offering a preview of how rising seas could reshape the region.

Email from California Coastal Commission We need your help to photograph king tides King Tides are Coming Soon! December 4th & 5th, 2025 and January 2nd & 3rd, 2026 Plus: Nov. 6th and Dec. 6th in Sout

Machine learning method counts nearly 12 million dead trees, many likely killed by rising seas

A groundwater crisis halted the construction of thousands of homes and pitted affordability against environmental concerns.