The state is entering its fourth year of drought, with no end in sight. Climate change will make it worse. Here are some options that could keep California from drying up.
Parts of California’s second-longest river have run dry for 60 years. This week, water will flow once again through the storied San Joaquin. Soon, if all goes well, salmon will follow.
In the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, cargo ships sail inland, the soil burns, and rivers run backward. Surreal it may be, but the delta is a cornerstone of the California economy -- and now it's at the brink of collapse.
California's San Pedro Bay ports form a vast metropolis of polluting cargo ships, trucks, and locomotives -- a "diesel death zone," say the neighbors, who are fighting back against the leviathan.