Coastal Restoration

Scientists project that the rainy season in California will get shorter as the climate warms

By the 2070s, climate change will reduce snowpack and increase extreme rainfall in the Sierra Nevada and California’s reservoirs will likely be overwhelmed. That’s according to a new study by UCLA climate scientists, who predict that run-off during so-called atmospheric rivers  will increase by nearly 50 percent, leading to widespread flooding across the state. We’ll

WASHINGTON -- USDA is making available up to $40 million in technical and financial assistance to help eligible conservation partners voluntarily protect, restore and enhanc

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law, passed by Congres

WASHINGTON -- In the story of St. Boniface, a Thunder Oak decorated with lit candles and gilded apples was glowing in the dark fores

WASHINGTON -- The latest episode of SARE’s Our Farms, Our Future podcast features Savi Horne, the executive director of the Land Loss Prevention Project in North Carolina i

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A California wine company has suddenly canceled contracts to purchase at least 2,000 tons of wine grapes from Southern Orego

SACRAMENTO -- The California State Board of Food and Agriculture will travel to the Sierra foothills for a two-day meeting addressing foothill farming an

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union made a key breakthrough on Friday to completely ban pesticides that harm bees and their crop pollination. Th

Farmers at Mud Creek Ranch and other farms in Ventura County assess the damage from recent — and ongoing wildfires.

SACRAMENTO -- The California Department of Food and Agriculture is joining with government partners, NGOs and private industry to celebrate the inaugural California Soil

Why isn't California, newly awash in water, shoving more into what amounts to its biggest reservoir -- the depleted Central Valley aquifer?

An unusual project in the Sacramento Valley makes allies out of rice farmers and scientists trying to save endangered Chinook salmon.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) today released 2017 Census of Agriculture data tabulated by race, ethnicity, an

Record flooding in parts of the Midwest in March caused immense damage to agriculture. Water is still standing in fields where failed river levees have not yet been repaired. For some farmers and ranchers, already facing low commodity prices, tariffs and taxes, it’s a compounded level of stress driving record numbers to seek professional help. Nebraska PBS station NET's Jack Williams reports.

LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) -- The Trump administration on Tuesday called on farmers to throw their support behind a proposal to withdraw federal protections fo

KATOWICE, Poland -- Seeing both forests and trees is about to get easier, thanks to a new open-access tool developed by US National Aeronautic

Part of the series Harvesting Peril, about agriculture, climate change and the American Farm Bureau's influence.

SACRAMENTO -- Urging the state water board to reject a proposal to redirect flows in three Central California rivers, a coalition of more tha

Vineyard surveying with the WingtraOne drone helps to make better decisions, and possibly even better wine?

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An alliance of California marijuana growers filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block state rules that they fear could open th

SACRAMENTO — Most real Christmas trees sold in California are raised on farms, creating jobs and boosting the economies in rural areas. That's jus

Scientists in China succeeded in growing the yield of a strain of saltwater-tolerant rice nearly three times their expectation. In the spring months, over 200 types of rice were planted at the Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Center in Qingdao, a coastal city in eastern China’s Shandong Province. Seawater from the Yellow Sea was …

At its peak in the 1930’s, sugar employed 50,000 people across the islands.