Modeling the Future of a Sea
The inner Salish Sea’s future response to climate change, while significant, is predicted to be less severe than that of the open ocean based on parameters like algal blooms, ocean acidification, and annual occurrences of hypoxia.
Diverse Scientists and Engineers for a Sustainable Energy Future
From Mexico and Ethiopia to a U.S. national lab, interns are ready to contribute to a sustainable energy future.
Assessing the Future of Global Energy-for-Water
Quantifying the future energy requirements of agricultural, industrial, and municipal water sector use.
Future Sharpening of Winter Storms in the Western United States
With future warming, storms in the Western U.S. will be larger and produce more intense precipitation, particularly near the storm center, and increase flood risks.
Gifts for a Brighter Future: PNNL’s 2021 Science and Technology Highlights
From water purification, to better batteries and tools to foil a cyberattack—a look back at how PNNL helped to invent a brighter and better future over the last year.
Tracing Future Water Scarcity across Socioeconomic and Climate Scenario Combinations
PNNL researchers used the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) to explore 15 different global scenarios that consisted of combinations of five different socioeconomic futures and four different climatic futures.
Effects of Water Management on Future Droughts from Atmosphere to Rivers: A Global Multi-Model Analysis
Water management activities could reduce both the duration and intensity of agricultural droughts by a factor of about ten in most regions, while they may increase those of hydrological droughts by up to 50 percent.