More than three decades after being listed for protection, California's delta smelt is “functionally extinct.” The Trump administration could hasten its demise.

The Trump administration has ended federal funding for a captive breeding program for California’s endangered delta smelt, threatening the future of the fish that the president blames for burdensome ...

Pity the poor delta smelt. The tiny fish, which seldom grows to more than four inches or lives longer than a year, was once abundant in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It was an important link ...

Delta smelt are tiny fish — most adults are less than 3 inches long — and nearly translucent, with a steely-blue sheen on their sides. As larvae, they start out eating microscopic food like ...

Donald Trump has taken more shots at me than at Vladimir Putin. He called me a “worthless fish” on Truth Social. And worst of ...

If we are to take seriously the threats of drought, climate change and water security, we should not reduce this place to a warring of two — or even many — sides.

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These Delta smelt were part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s refugio population at Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery near Shasta Dam in Redding in 2017. (Public domain photo by Steve ...

Today, I’m extinct in the wild. And the delta smelt captive breeding program (it’s even less sexy than it sounds), has struggled to produce more of me — and may soon be dead. The Trump ...

The recent change in administration in Washington has sparked a renewed sense of optimism here in. This transition presents ...