6:46 p.m. May 27, 2025: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to double-crested cormorants as double-breasted cormorants. Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of ...

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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. - Some Southern California wetlands could face ecological impacts after a pipeline failed, causing a 126,000-gallon oil spill from an offshore rig in the waters off Huntington ...

SACRAMENTO, California — California officials are trying to boost state wetlands protections in order to guard against a 2023 Supreme Court decision that slashed federal oversight of wetlands.

At stake are seasonal streams, ponds and pools, which are only inundated part of the time and found throughout the Southwest. In California, an estimated 80% of all linear miles of streams and rivers ...

More than 75,000 birds have died after an outbreak of disease in a California wetlands refuge. The Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in the Klamath Basin, near the California-Oregon border, is in the ...

DAVID STEINER FIRST NOTICED THEM at his Suisun Marsh duck club, Joice Island Mallard Farms, a couple of years ago. "You'd see this animal swimming with just its head above the water," Steiner said.

Yolo Basin Foundation is hosting California Duck Days, Northern California’s wetlands and wildlife festival, on Saturday, April 26. This family-friendly event will take place at the Yolo Bypass ...

LOS ANGELES – Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of dry, sunbaked lake bed as California officials filled a complex of shallow ponds near the south shore of the Salton Sea in an ...

Legislators and environmentalists are considering how to safeguard California’s wetlands after the Trump administration announced its plans to rein in — once again — the nation’s 53-year-old law ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Legislators and environmentalists are considering how to safeguard California’s wetlands after the Trump ...