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Quantifying California’s Lithium Valley: Can It Power Our EV Revolution?

Mud volcanoes and mudpots next to the EnergySource Minerals power plant at the edge of the Salton Sea.

What’s in a Name for a New Fungal Strain?

Tamas Torok collecting field samples in the Uzon Caldera, a volcanic environment located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, to find extremophiles.

Three Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive AAAS Fellowship

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National Labs Support Safe Nuclear Waste Disposal by Studying Safety Material for Underground Sites

Plants Buy Us Time to Slow Climate Change – But Not Enough to Stop It

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Sizing Up the Challenges in Extracting Lithium from Geothermal Brine

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Methane’s Short Lifespan Presents Golden Opportunity to Quickly Address Climate Change

New Technology Sees Underground to Assess Crop Roots

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Improved Earth System Model Could Help Better Predict Impact of Extreme Events

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Managing Water Resources in a Low-to-No-Snow Future

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Berkeley Lab Mobilizes to Predict How Caldor Fire May Lead to Floods and Land Movement

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Latest IPCC Report Points to Urgent Need to Cut Emissions

A chart that shows projected changes in annual maximum temperature (top row) and annual minimum temperature (bottom) at three levels of global warming in the world, compared to the 1851-1900 baseline, based on computer simulations.