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The California Department of Water Resources says it will increase the amount of water delivered from the state water project this year. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce says local water agencies will take every extra drop of water they can get

As President Obama takes the oath of office again today and lays out his vision for the next four years, we're live blogging before, during and after the ceremony.

Major snowstorms are set to bury the mid-Atlantic states this weekend after record snowfalls in December. Last month California was awash in rain. The Gulf states have seen heavy weather lately as well.

The project's original goal was to see if eight humans could survive two years in an enclosed ecosystem that creates its own air, food and water? The result was no. Now scientists are using the controlled environment to study climate change.

Winter storms have bolstered the Sierra snowpack and started to replenish California's water supply, but officials said Friday that may not mean much for farms and cities.

Forecasters Predict Wet Weather Through March

San Diego has an urban forest whose greatest expression is in Balboa Park. Mike Marika showed me some trees in the park that inspired Dr. Suess and some trees that dwelled in the tombs of the pharaohs.

Rome may have fallen hundreds of years ago, but much of the civilization the Romans built still dots the landscape today. One team of scientists recently unearthed a different kind of Roman artifact that may hold a surprising clue to the empire's downfall.

The below-normal snowpack in the Sierra could mean more water restrictions next summer ... and lost jobs. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce explains.

Heavy rains in California, record snowfalls in the mid-Atlantic and fires in Indonesia are all being attributed to the phenomenon. Government meteorologists say the effects of the most powerful El Nino since 1997-98 will very likely persist for another month or two.