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Steel has a major impact on everyone’s lives and our economy. It is crucial to cars, trucks, airplanes, buildings and more. However, there is a significant issue with its production process. Globally, it accounts for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector.

With the 2023 United Nations Climate Change

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A change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time.

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Conference just nine weeks away, countries will soon take stock of their progress in the worldwide effort to slow and adapt to global warming. Better known as COP28, the conference offers the chance for countries to meet and coordinate their climate-mitigating pledges, like achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 or peak emissions by 2030.

Dorothy Koch has been named Associate Director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program. Most recently, Koch was with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), serving as the Weather Program Office (WPO) Director.

To answer key questions in cloud and precipitation science and address associated critical measurement barriers, CPMSG members convened a number of breakout sessions at the Joint ARM User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting, which took place August 7–10, 2023.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $5 million in funding for 6 projects that will increase the use and utility of DOE research to improve climate resilience, particularly in vulnerable communities, in conjunction with the White House Summit on Building Climate Resilient Communities.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $264 million in funding for 29 projects to develop solutions for the scientific challenges underlying DOE’s Energy Earthshots™ Initiative to advance clean energy technologies within the decade.

A rooftop in Chicago seems like an unlikely place to start a science career, but on a sunny morning in May, several Northeastern Illinois University (Northeastern) students gathered on the top of a campus building. They were accompanied by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Northeastern faculty.

As part of an effort to increase the proportion of underrepresented students pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed a new experiential learning program designed to give students an introduction to the physical sciences and some initial real-world lab experience.

A government-funded consortium offering science and technology learning opportunities to student minorities aims to, over time, equalize workforce demographics at national laboratories, said leaders of the effort at Sandia National Laboratories.

Lauren Sylvia Abrahams’ upbringing in a Mexican Jewish household shaped how she interacts and works with people by having a better understanding of their lived and learned experiences. Abrahams’ biracial and multiethnic background and passion for higher education have been the foundational pillars of her interest and work in inclusion, diversity, equity and accountability (IDEA) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), many employees kick off their careers by first pursuing internships or research opportunities that provide insight into what careers they might want to pursue one day. Why intern at LLNL? LLNL’s experienced mentors, collaborative culture and robust resources provide students with purposeful experiences and projects with real-world impacts.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced that Grace Gu, a faculty member in mechanical engineering at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the LLNL Early Career UC Faculty Initiative.