Researchers have developed the first coastal transport model for microplastics to understand how particles move in waterways and coastal currents.

Researchers at PNNL advised elementary and middle school student teams with their problem-solving research for the FIRST® LEGO® League robotics competitions.

A new study led by PNNL researcher TC Chakraborty provides some answers about how irrigated agricultural land near cities affects urban heat stress.

New datasets delineating global urban land support scientific research, application, and policy, but they can produce different results when applied to the same problem making it difficult for researchers to decide which to use.

The demand for energy is growing—and so is the technology supporting it. However, future development of power generation technologies could be affected by a key factor: material supply.

The Delaware River Basin is projected to experience a regional increase in flood severity under future climate scenarios.

Pacific Northwest may face increase in summer heat-dome-like stationary waves.

Earth Scientist Laura Fierce mentors Department of Energy Science Graduate Student Research program awardees.

PNNL signs memorandum of understanding with Oregon State University to support marine science and technology advancements.

Variations in the level of market globalization can greatly affect the amount of water required to meet future global demand for agricultural commodities.

Climate change and socioeconomic pressures are transforming passenger and freight transportation in the Arctic, producing effects that have yet to be fully understood.

Testing the assumption that different future socio-economic development patterns, which result in different land-use changes, can be paired with different future climate outcomes for risk assessments in a multi-model framework.

Incorporating spatially explicit land characteristics in a global model illustrates the complex effects of applying uniform regional protection assumptions in a global analysis.

Recovery Simulator and Analysis tool further strengthens PNNL’s short-term resilience planning efforts for Puerto Rico.

Unveiling diverse scenarios and implications for water resource management in a rapidly changing world.

Quantifying the long-term destination of anthropogenic emissions and robustness of global carbon sinks.

New study identifies crucial factors for more accurate hydrological predictions in the Community Land Model version 5.

Groundwater modeling of irrigation return flow dynamics is important for improving estimates of water availability.

A review describes the latest techniques for simulating hydropower at large scales to inform power grid planning and operations.

Hydropower generation estimated using water proxy data leads to a revision of the nation’s historical seasonal hydropower output.