Your Top Science Stories This Week
| | It’s been a beast of a year for snow in the Sierra Nevada range. On Tuesday the monthly manual survey revealed a snowpack at 162 percent of the long-term average, thanks to more than 30 atmospheric river storms that swept across the state over the winter.
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| | | If you thought rocket science was complex, try your hand at avalanche science. For starters, there's the dry slab, the wet avalanche, the loose types. Then there's the icefalls, cornice falls, glides, and slushes. | | |
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| | | Officials unleashed water down Oroville Dam's rebuilt spillway Tuesday for the first time since it crumbled and drove hundreds of thousands of residents from their homes over fears of catastrophic flooding. | | |
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| | | Marine conservationists are pushing a range of solutions to reduce whale collisions, including the development of thermal cameras, underwater listening devices and satellite-sensing systems to help alert ship captains. | | |
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| The utility's January announcement that it won't seek a new license for the Potter Valley Project raises questions about the future of the controversial system of dams and water diversions. | | |
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| Most beef cattle receive antibiotics in their feed to prevent liver abscesses while eating a high-energy diet. There's growing pressure on feedlots to stop this — and some have. But it's costly. | | |
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