A new study shows how organic molecules respond to global change varies according to functional traits and ecological processes.

MSD-LIVE, a cloud-based data and code management system, will be released in summer 2022 for hundreds of scientists.

Updated flexible software generates and optimizes monitoring programs for detecting potential leaks from geological carbon storage with an enhanced user experience.

A process developed at PNNL that converts biomass and waste into a chemical intermediate or into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel is available for commercial licensing.

A new simple and scalable synthesis produces nanoparticle assemblies that can perform catalytic hydrogen sensing at room temperature for the first time.

A study that combined experiments and theory showed how model enzymes control challenging reactions involving highly reactive carbocations.

Assessing a complex concert of the weather and terrain conditions that affect the growth of cumulus clouds into deep thunderstorms along mountain ranges.

Tropical cyclones induce sea surface cooling, but their associated heavy rainfall reduces the effect through increased ocean mixing.

Researchers studied water cycling to assess the achievability of net-zero water usage at military installations in the Pacific Islands.

Relaxing the simplifying assumptions in model energy budgets can affect their simulated regional water cycles.

By decreasing the amount of precious metal in a catalyst, the system increased its efficiency and selectivity for breaking apart plastics.

A novel combination of temperature and four-dimensional geophysical sensors revealed otherwise unseeable hydrologic dynamics below riverbed sediments.

Dominant and functionally important soil microbes show strong, predictable, and distinctly different associations with continental-scale gradients in climate, vegetation, and soil moisture.

New research quantifies the discrepancies between ground measurements of soil respiration and satellite estimates of photosynthesis.

PNNL scientists have proposed an "adaptive site management" cleanup strategy for the Hanford Site's Central Plateau that incorporates a structured, flexible approach to environmental remediation.

The Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines initiative recently outlined six years of research in a findings and impact report.

Researchers at PNNL are developing a better model of the soil, better representing the atmosphere, and identifying sources of record high rainfall within a model of the Earth system.

An improved model captures the interactions between the U.S. economy, energy, water, and land systems with increased spatial and temporal detail.

Recalibrating both cloud and subgrid representations improves model projections of the base climate, aerosol-cloud interactions, and cloud feedbacks.

Tuning the environment and platinum-group metal allows researchers to control which bonds the catalyst breaks using hydrogen.