Institute News

Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the creation of two new Energy Innovation Hubs. One of the national hubs, the Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA), is led by Argonne National Laboratory and co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley...

A new study finds that an increase in electrification brings significant benefits to larger villages, but has a limited impact in small, rural villages.

Energy Transition Network unveiled to enable fundamental research to create societal impact

A new Science study shows that when communities experienced the near death of entire insect-eating bat populations, farmers increased their use of pesticides. This in turn increased the infant mortality rate.

While pollution slightly dipped due largely to a trend reversal in South Asia, more than three-quarters of countries around the world have not set or aren’t meeting national pollution standards.

Groundwater has been free to farmers in most of the world, including California, leading to rapid resource depletion. A new study finds that when California farmers have to pay for that water, they use less, switching their land to crops...

A new study shows that when tens of millions of vultures were unintentionally poisoned in India, it removed “nature’s sanitation service” and allowed deadly bacteria and infections to proliferate.

The EPIC Air Quality Fund, through a gift from Open Philanthropy, will bring air quality monitors and open pollution data to some of the world’s most polluted communities.