Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just east of the San Francisco Bay, a steel bucket holding 90 gallons of water is strained to rescue precious cargo. The metal ...

SACRAMENTO -- Are state and federal water pumps killing critically endangered fish species? Environmental activists say it is a well-documented problem in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Juvenile Chinook salmon in a hatchery tank. (Travis VanZant / California Department of Fish and Wildlife) Powerful pumps that ...

With the northern area of Biscayne Bay temporarily starved of oxygen, environmentalists and governments raced to use massive pumps this weekend to recirculate some of the sea water and pump it with ...

California environmental groups are urging a federal court to intervene amid a “dramatic increase” in the deaths of threatened steelhead trout at pumps operated by state and federal water managers.

Powerful pumps that supply much of California’s population with water have killed several thousand threatened and endangered fish this year, prompting a coalition of environmental groups to demand ...

Just east of the San Francisco Bay, a steel bucket holding 90 gallons of water is strained to rescue precious cargo. The metal roars as it spins, dispelling more and more water, to reveal, finally, a ...