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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...
How wonderful to see the fish return.
A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back
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November 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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ianjames.bsky.social
The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant personhood rights to a river.

“The river is my grandfather.” @debkrol.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river
The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon give their eponymous river personhood status, following moves by other tribes and Indigenous peoples.
www.azcentral.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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ianjames.bsky.social
Baby Chinook salmon are swimming in the North Yuba River, where state biologists are trying out a program to reintroduce fish upstream from dams. www.latimes.com/california/s... #CAwater
New program aims to boost salmon in Northern California river
For the first time in more 80 years, Chinook salmon are swimming in the North Yuba River in Northern California thanks to an innovative wildlife program.
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February 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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ianjames.bsky.social
Why is it taking so long to restore clean drinking water in Altadena and Pacific Palisades after the fires? @nohaggerty.bsky.social reports on the steps utilities are taking, including testing hundreds of sites for dangerous carcinogens and flushing out their systems. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Inside the battle to restore drinking water in Altadena and Pacific Palisades
Water utilities in Altadena and Pacific Palisades are undertaking an arduous process of repressurizing their underground pipelines, testing for contaminants and attempting to flush them out.
www.latimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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isaacrowlett.bsky.social
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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weatherwest.bsky.social
As extremely dry (record dry, in some cases) start to "rainy season" in SoCal continues, the NWS in Los Angeles has issued a Red Flag Warning for low humidity/modest offshore winds (overlapping New Year's Eve fireworks--usually more of a 4th of July problem!). #CAwx #CAfire
Graphic from National Weather Service in Oxnard describing elevated (though not extreme) fire weather risk for this week in portions of Southern California, including New Year's Eve.
December 31, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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‘No way, not possible’: California has a plan for new water rules. Will it save salmon from extinction? #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2024/12/16/c...
CAL MATTERS: ‘No way, not possible’: California has a plan for new water rules. Will it save salmon from extinction?
Growers and cities support the Newsom administration proposal, saying it strikes a balance for uses of Delta water. But environmentalists say the “healthy riv
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December 16, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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ianjames.bsky.social
The Safe Drinking Water Act turns 50: A look at how the landmark law has benefited the public, the enduring challenges, and new problems the country faces in seeking to ensure clean drinking water. @waltonbrett.bsky.social www.circleofblue.org/2024/world/s...
Safe Drinking Water Act Turns 50
Landmark law encounters new problems, enduring challenges.
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December 16, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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magpie.tips
If you live near the LA river and have never been to the soft bottom sections, I highly recommend it. They remind me that systems can endure with the smallest pockets of opportunity.
A hooded merganser rests on a rock among reeds A great blue heron flies low over the los angeles river An American Pipit is reflected in a pool of water The Burbank stretch of the los angeles river's soft bottom: stones, plants, and trees grow out of the original river bottom within the concrete canal of the river.
November 9, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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sammyroth.bsky.social
Residents of a Washington city voted to give enforceable legal rights to the Snohomish River. Individuals, agencies and groups can now bring lawsuits to keep the ecosystem healthy: insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights - Inside Climate News
Voters in the city of Everett chose to grant the Snohomish River watershed rights to exist, regenerate and flourish as part of a November ballot initiative.
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December 9, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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ianjames.bsky.social
Earth just experienced the second-warmest November on record — second only to 2023 — making it all but certain that 2024 will end as the hottest year ever measured, according to a report by European climate service Copernicus. apnews.com/article/clim... @apnews.com @coveringclimatenow.org
Second-warmest November on record means that 2024 is likely to be Earth's hottest year, report says
A new report says Earth just experienced its second-warmest November on record — second only to 2023 — making it all but certain that 2024 will end as the hottest year ever measured.
apnews.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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nevadacurrent.com
NV, AZ, and CA have managed to increase water elevation in Lake Mead by nearly 20 feet in 2 years, and conserved more water in 2023 than any previous year since 1984. But the lake is still at only 33% capacity.
nevadacurrent.com/2024/12/05/c...
California conservation efforts have raised Lake Mead by 16-feet in two years, regulators say  • Nevada Current
Water users in California have conserved enough water since 2022 to raise Lake Mead water levels by 16 feet — an effort that has provided temporary stability to the Nevada reservoir, as western states...
nevadacurrent.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM