The University of California, Davis' Fish Conservation and Culture Laboratory was in financial limbo after its grant lapsed.

The federal government has restored funding for a captive breeding program designed to ensure survival of California’s delta smelt, even as President Donald Trump has sharpened criticism of the ...

Guest Opinion. In January 2025, with the epic fire destruction of the Palisades home development area and surrounding regions ...

Stakeholders should stay informed as state and federal officials advance plans and policies for water conservation, water quality, and ...

Members of the California Water Commission got a riparian reprieve from the stuffy confines of a Sacramento board room when ...

Today, I’m extinct in the wild. And the delta smelt captive breeding program (it’s even less sexy than it sounds), has struggled to produce more of me — and may soon be dead.

More than three decades after being listed for protection, California’s delta smelt is “functionally extinct.” The Trump administration could hasten its demise. At just 3 inches long ...

Morning mist rises off a California Delta waterway called Whiskey Slough, about 10 miles west of Stockton, Calif.Credit... Supported by Photographs and Text by Ryan Christopher Jones Mr. Jones is ...

When the Trump administration ordered the Army Corp of Engineers to open the gates on two Federal dams in California earlier this year, it may have been the first shot in an evolving war on California ...