California Environmental News

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
Streamlining Federal Permitting Key to Safe, Reliable Water Infrastructure
...blem," Research Fellow in Agriculture Policy for The Heritage Foundation Daren Bakst argued. In California, the current water system was designed to serve 2...

Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
Scientists create unprecedented catalog of microbial life on planet Earth
...ng Janet Jansson of the D.O.E.'s Pacific Northwest National Lab and colleagues at the University of California San Diego, the University of Chicago and DOE's Ar...

Thursday, August 24th, 2017
Dust matters when it comes to rainfall
...ew Mexico, as part of the North American Monsoon, gets moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of California during the late summer. Scientists have found tha...

Thursday, August 10th, 2017
PNNL scientist Jiwen Fan gains D.O.E. Early Career Research award
...ed thunderstorms in the central United States. Fires not only in the western United States, such as California, but also in Central America pump vast numbers of...

Monday, July 24th, 2017
PNNL's Jesse Lang in it for the long run
...y led him to finish 20th in the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run, which was held June 24-25 in California. He completed the grueling trail run in 20 hours,...

Tuesday, July 18th, 2017
PNNL scientist Ruby Leung appointed a Battelle Fellow
... the factors that lead to a healthy snowpack in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest and northern California, which provides water for the regions' summers an...

Monday, June 12th, 2017
Scientists follow the trail of gut fungi in search for sustainable fuels
.... The work, published in Nature Microbiology, was led by Michelle O'Malley of the University of California at Santa Barbara. To do the work, she drew on the...

Thursday, June 1st, 2017
'Expert in a suitcase' cuts power bills 10% in small commercial buildings
... Credit: Andrea Starr/PNNL one of one BERKELEY, California and RICHLAND, Wash. - The knowledge and expertise...

Thursday, May 25th, 2017
A new view of tropical forest emissions
...or a large part of the world's atmospheric isoprene. Credit: Sarah Batalha, University of California, Irvine one of o...