Climate change is leading not only to droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather. It’s also leading to oxymorons—at least when ...

As climate change makes California’s weather whiplash more ... the chair of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, a state agency that regulates flood control in the region.

Four major rivers empty into the landlocked southern end of the Central Valley ... floods in the 1930s, was built to regulate the flows of the nation's up-again, down-again rivers. California ...

Authorities issued evacuation orders for parts of Kern County, California, on Friday due to flash flooding. This included Bakersfield in the Central Valley area of the state. Listen to the power ...

“The nice thing about floods in the Central Valley,” he said, “is they’re usually pretty gradual.” And unlike what California experienced with the great flood of 1862, the state has ...

Giant floods like those that inundated the Central Valley in 1861 and 1862 are part of California’s natural cycle, but the latest science shows that the coming megafloods, intensified by climate ...

It’s a question many residents of California’s Central Valley are ... opted out of the state’s Central Valley Flood Protection Plan when it was first adopted in 2012. At the time the plan ...

By Soumya Karlamangla When an “atmospheric river” dumped torrents of rain over the Central ... as are most California farmworkers. That meant that 41 percent of the flood-damaged households ...

“The Central Valley would be in much better shape to weather an extreme flood scenario if all of these measures were put into place.” California has seen disastrous flooding in its pas ...

At the crack of dawn in California’s Central Valley ... beavers and waterfowl. While flooding is now welcome at Dos Rios, for Central Valley farmers and residents, it has long been a demon.

flooding. The California High Speed Rail Authority’s March 2023 Project Update set back the date for Central Valley service to late 2030 at the earliest—a stark contrast to the original ...