Jan. 27—Less than two weeks after a huge fire in Moss Landing at one of the world's largest battery storage plants, scientists affiliated with San Jose State University have discovered unusually ...

The cause of the fire at the Vistra Energy Storage Facility is still unknown. And so are its consequences for the sensitive ecosystem. Ivano Aiello, professor and chair at Moss Landing Marine Labs, ...

Much of the Elkhorn Slough estuary was diked in the past to cut off tidal exchange and allow for farming in former wetlands. Many of these areas still have only limited tidal exchange today.

Today, Elkhorn Slough has the highest concentration of otters in all of California — about 100 in total. Hughes says this means that "the hotel is full. The no vacancy light's on.

The researchers decided to conduct another test, going to 13 tidal creeks in the Elkhorn Slough estuary to perform a before-after comparison. The study determined that erosion rates were 69% lower ...

Today, Elkhorn Slough has the highest concentration of otters in all of California — about 100 in total. Hughes says this means that "the hotel is full. The no vacancy light's on.

The new study, published in Nature on Jan. 31, combined a decade’s worth of data from large-scale surveys across 13 tidal creeks of Elkhorn Slough, and small-scale field experiments at five ...

Sea otters are making an impact as they return to the wetlands of ... like Elkhorn Slough and San Francisco Bay until ... across 13 tidal creeks. Data on the slough’s erosion ...

This article was originally published in UCSB’s ‘The Current‘. Sea otters are making an impact as they return to the wetlands of Central California. Remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape ...

In the several decades since sea otters began to recolonize their former habitat in Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh-dominated coastal estuary in central California, remarkable changes have occurred ...