/ Lake clarity Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /climate/news/2025-lake-tahoe-clarity-report-released <p><span>Staring into the depths of Lake Tahoe, you might think the view goes on forever. But researchers at the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/lake-tahoe"><span>51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center</span></a><span> have been tracking precisely how far a person can see through the famed lake’s waters for nearly 60 years and sharing the results in the annual Lake Tahoe Clarity Report.&nbsp;</span></p> June 09, 2026 - 8:30am Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/2025-lake-tahoe-clarity-report-released /news/climate-and-ecology-linked-lake-tahoe-clarity-decline-2016 <p>Clarity levels at Lake Tahoe&nbsp;increased in winter and decreased in summer in 2016. The summer values were due to the continuing effects of climate change, according to researchers at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis. The summer declines were so large that they outweighed the improving winter clarity.</p> May 18, 2017 - 4:54pm Andy Fell /news/climate-and-ecology-linked-lake-tahoe-clarity-decline-2016