Scientists devised a new energetic framework that enables them to decipher the patterns of Asian summer rainfall.

Study says planners need to account for climate impacts on renewable energy during capacity development planning to fully understand investment implications to the power sector.

High school students from across Washington State competed in the Pacific Northwest Regional Science Bowl, hosted online by PNNL, for a chance to advance to the national competition in May.

This is a story of how Nikki Sather's career journey studying the pulse of the Pacific Northwest's ecosystems began with a salmon's heartbeat. Sather currently works as an earth scientist at PNNL's Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory.

Understanding the Earth as a complex, dynamic system includes investigating what happens on, above and below its surface.

A newly proposed selective interference mechanism explains the periodic behavior in the leading oscillation mode in the Southern Hemisphere storm activity.

A new high-spatiotemporal resolution dataset of convective systems allows researchers to better study warm season storms in the U.S.

PNNL’s cultural resources team has worked on Tribal relations projects across the U.S. to navigate potential impacts of complex energy siting efforts.

Merging long-term records of aerosol loading to create a high-quality, useful dataset for a continental site.

For the second straight year, PNNL researchers are featured in a special edition of the Journal of Information Warfare. This issue explores the topic of macro cyber resiliency.

A new study projects that electricity demand tied to cooling U.S. buildings will grow as peak temperatures rise, and so too would the need for an expanded power sector.

A team of researchers from 10 national laboratories and eight universities is conducting hydraulic shearing tests to explore the potential for geothermal energy at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF).

Understanding lipid composition of ant fungal gardens provides new knowledge on interkingdom communications band and also advances toward the development of microbial systems that can produce valuable compounds from plant biomass.

The urbanization of Kansas City changed the path, intensified, and increased large hail production in a studied severe convective storm.

Earth scientist Larry Berg selected as the division director for the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division.

Research provides overview of the consequences of a new set of future scenarios based on Earth system model simulations.

One year ago, Verizon announced a partnership that made PNNL the U.S. Department of Energy’s first national laboratory with Verizon 5G ultra-wideband wireless technology.

Quantifying the future energy requirements of agricultural, industrial, and municipal water sector use.

Calculating the multi-region and multisector effects of water scarcity for thousands of possible future socioeconomic, climate, and hydrologic scenarios.

Using a physically-advanced modeling scheme shows that anthropogenic aerosols significantly enhance the convective intensity and precipitation of storms