Organismal contribution and community interaction drive soil organic matter breakdown by microbes.

Identifying a novel gene function on soil viruses.

Study shows coastal plants are dying from hydraulic failure and carbon starvation.

Biochemical preservation and mineral association retain carbon in grassland soils, resulting in consistent molecular composition across ecosystems.

Across the United States, water moving between the river and riverbed sediments does not overcome localized processes that govern organic matter chemistry.

Better representing electric capacity markets, economic retirements, and power-plant age structure provides a more robust understanding of the future evolution of the electric sector.

Microbes and viruses play key roles in carbon and nitrogen cycling in riverbed sediments.

Proteins from “auxiliary” genes in soil viruses play a role in the carbon cycle and climate, scientists have found.

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.

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

Forms of nitrogen released by nitrogen-fixing bacteria differ across sampling scales and in structured environments.

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

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

A climate change study co-authored by PNNL scientist Hailong Wang inspired an artist to create an exhibit based on the research.

Soil transplant experiment gives new insights into coastal forest resilience, rising seas, and increasing storms.

PNNL contributes to 30 years of data on clouds, radiation, and other climate-making factors as part of field campaigns and analysis conducted by DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility.

Researchers use machine learning to speed up the analysis of aerosol datasets from mass spectrometry.

A novel ecological measurement uncovered interactions between river corridor organic matter assemblages and microbial communities, highlighting potentially important microbial taxa and molecular formula types.