DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Author at YubaNet

A new study finds that mountains across the Northern Hemisphere will be vulnerable to extreme rain and the hazards that come with it. Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab

Mountains vulnerable to extreme rain from climate change

by DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory June 29, 2023June 29, 2023

As the world warms, extreme weather events grow – and they also change. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found that climate change is shifting snowfall to rainfall on mountains across the Northern Hemisphere. Those surges of liquid water bring a distinct set of dangers, including floods, landslides, and […]

Berkeley Lab scientist Jasquelyn Peña, UC Davis postdoc Kyounglim Kang, and U.S. Forest Service hydrologist Vince Pacific collect water samples from a creek in Capps Creek Crossing.

Regional

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

by DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory October 21, 2021October 21, 2021

October 21, 2021 – The Cosumnes River watershed is representative of many in California in that it extends from the Sierra Nevada mountain range to the Central Valley, providing water and recharging aquifers for municipal and agricultural regions, but unique in that it’s one of the last major rivers without a large-scale dam, enabling the […]

California

How California Wildfires Can Impact Water Availability

by DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory September 4, 2019

September 4, 2019 – In recent years, wildfires in the western United States have occurred with increasing frequency and scale. Climate change scenarios in California predict prolonged periods of drought with potential for conditions even more amenable to wildfires. The Sierra Nevada Mountains provide up to 70% of the state’s water resources, yet there is little […]

California

Berkeley Lab awarded $4.6 million for risk mitigation of natural gas storage and transmission

by DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory June 21, 2017

June 20, 2017 – The massive natural gas leak at Aliso Canyon shined a light on California’s aging natural gas infrastructure. And five years of extreme drought also exacted its toll on transmission pipelines. Now the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been awarded $4.6 million by the California Energy Commission […]

California

Bay Area methane emissions may be double what we thought

by DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory January 18, 2017

Jan. 18, 2017 – Emissions of methane–a potent climate-warming gas–may be roughly twice as high as officially estimated for the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of the emissions come from biological sources, such as landfills, but natural gas leakage is also an important source, according to a new study from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence […]

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