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Climate Scientists Partner with San Francisco to be Ready for Future Storms
The San Francisco seawall is the foundation of over three miles of San Francisco’s waterfront from Fisherman’s Wharf to Mission Creek and is over 100 years old. The Seawall supports key utility and...
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Berkeley Lab Project to Pinpoint Methane ‘Super Emitters’
Berkeley Lab’s new project to identify and mitigate methane “super emitters” will focus on the area in the white polygon. The smaller colored polygons show the diversity of methane emission sources and...
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Berkeley Lab Technology Provides Clarity Amid Hawaiian Water Contamination...
At Gillin’s Beach in the Mahaulepu watershed, signs were frequently posted warning beach goers not to swim. However, the team found no evidence of any contamination during an entire year year of...
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Berkeley Lab Receives DOE Support for Building to Study Microbe-Ecosystem...
The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently received federal approval to proceed with preliminary design work for a state-of-the-art building that would...
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How Does Climate Change Affect Mountainous Watersheds That Give Us Our Water?
Research by the DOE Watershed Function SFA project team takes place year-round in a research area along the East River catchment near the Upper Colorado River headwaters. One of the busiest times for...
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A Matchmaker for Microbiomes
A unique neural network architecture called mmvec (microbe-metabolite vectors) has made it possible to accurately infer the interactions between the microbes that are present in a community and the...
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Associate Lab Director Susan Hubbard Joins the National Academy of Engineering
(Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Susan Hubbard, the Associate Laboratory Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, has been...
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Impacts of Climate Change on Our Water and Energy Systems: It’s Complicated
The Dos Amigos Pumping Plant in Merced County and California Aqueduct are part of the California State Water Project, an energy-intensive public water project that distributes water throughout the...
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Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Monitoring Capabilities Still in Use 10 Years After...
These maps show radiation dose rates in the Fukushima evacuation zone and former evacuation zone over time. At left is data from 2014, at middle is data from 2015, and at right is data from 2016. There...
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The Future Looks Bright for Infinitely Recyclable Plastic
Only about 2% of plastics are fully recycled currently. PDK plastics could solve the single-use crisis. (Chanchai Phetdikhai/Shutterstock) Plastics are a part of nearly every product we use on a daily...
View ArticleLiving Large: Exploration of Diverse Bacteria Signals Big Advance for Gene...
Scientists at Berkeley Lab, including researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute, have developed a workflow that enables large-scale, genome-wide assays of gene importance...
View ArticleBy Jove! Methane’s Effects on Sunlight Vary by Region
Scientists investigating how human-induced increases in atmospheric methane also increase the amount of solar energy absorbed by that gas in our climate system have discovered that this absorption is...
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