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BERKELEY LAB: New membrane technology could expand access to water for agricultural and industrial use

July 1, 2025

Berkeley Lab-led Water Hub supports company in advancing desalination methods By Christina Procopiou, Berkeley Lab Key Takeaways Approximately 40 percent...

BERKELEY LAB: Sequencing the mysterious microbes of the San Francisco Estuary

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Delta science

December 17, 2024

By decoding the genomes of microbes found in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, researcher Lauren Lui aims to fill in...

BERKELEY LAB: Turning agricultural trash to treasure

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Agriculture

July 16, 2024

New funding will help Berkeley Lab and partners improve how the diverse agricultural waste in California’s Northern San Joaquin Valley...

BERKELEY LAB: Unraveling the Mysteries of Consecutive Atmospheric River Events

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Hydrology Science

April 18, 2024

Berkeley Lab scientists are investigating the characteristics and impacts of back-to-back atmospheric river events By Julie Bobyock, Berkeley Lab In...

BERKELEY LAB: NAWI awards funding to continue desalination hub to drive innovation for sustainable water security

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Water supply augmentation

April 11, 2024

A research consortium led by Berkeley Lab, along with three other national labs, will continue to lead a DOE desalination...

BERKELEY LAB: Air pollution hides increases in rainfall: As aerosol emissions diminish, average and extreme rains may ramp up

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Climate change

February 23, 2024

For much of the last century, the drying effect of aerosols has masked increases in rainfall from greenhouse gases –...

BERKELEY LAB: Rising Sea Levels Could Lead to More Methane Emitted from Wetlands

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Climate change

January 29, 2024

A low-salinity Bay Area estuary ecosystem is producing higher-than-expected levels of methane By Aliyah Kovner, Berkeley Lab As sea levels...

BERKELEY LAB: Mountains Vulnerable to Extreme Rain from Climate Change

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Climate change Hydrology

June 30, 2023

As rising global temperatures shift snow to rain, mountains across the Northern Hemisphere will be hotspots for extreme rainfall events...

BERKELEY LAB: New Look at Climate Data Shows Substantially Wetter Rain and Snow Days Ahead

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Climate change

April 13, 2023

By Lauren Biron, Berkeley Lab A key source of information underpinning the upcoming National Climate Assessment suggests that heavy precipitation...

BERKELEY LAB: Managing water resources in a low-to-no-snow future

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Science

October 26, 2021

With mountain snowpacks shrinking in the western U.S., new Berkeley Lab study analyzes when a low-to-no-snow future might arrive and...

BERKELEY LAB: Mountains of data: an unprecedented climate observatory to understand the future of water

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Colorado River Hydrology Science

August 24, 2021

First-ever “bedrock-to-atmosphere” observation system could allow scientists to predict the future of water availability in the West By Julie Chao,...

BERKELEY LAB: Impacts of climate change on our water and energy systems: it’s complicated

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Climate change

January 11, 2021

A team of researchers from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara propose a framework for evaluating climate change...

BERKELEY LAB: Could the answer to groundwater resources come from high in the sky?

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Groundwater News

June 11, 2020

Berkeley Lab scientists pair satellite data with high-resolution monitoring to estimate groundwater depletion across California’s Central Valley By Christina Procopiou,...

BERKELEY LAB: How California wildfires can impact water availability

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Groundwater News Wildfires and watersheds

September 4, 2019

New Berkeley Lab study uses supercomputers to analyze hydrological changes in a California watershed following a wildfire. By Julie Chao,...

BERKELEY LAB: Understanding effects of climate change on California watersheds

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Climate change Science

March 21, 2018

By Julie Chao, Berkeley Lab California relies on the Sierra Nevada snowpack for a significant portion of its water needs,...

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