A delegation of 30 Stanford undergraduate and co-term students is currently in Paris, France, where the latest round of international climate negotiations is taking place. For two weeks, they will interview participants, observe the city, and report on the state of negotiations, while the world awaits news of a post-Kyoto agreement.

As they work toward halting global warming, international delegates at the Paris climate talks will depend on a knowledge base that Stanford scholars helped build over the past two decades.

Stanford Earth researcher Aaron Strong joins New York Times reporter Andy Revkin to discuss the history of UN climate summit and what is different at this year's event.

A new study coauthored by Prof. Noah Diffenbaugh and graduate students Justin Mankin and Deepti Singh finds that as greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures continue to rise, mountain snowmelt will decrease.

Cassandra Brooks is hopeful that a Southern Ocean Marine Protected Area can be created that will protect Anarctic wildlife, including the Adélie penguins for which her daughter is named. 

Research by Rob Jackson shows that modernization of U.S. natural gas pipelines is reducing leaks and promoting safety.

Research by Stanford Earth PhD student Nik Sawe shows that our emotions can override the brain's calculations, leading to otherwise irrational decisions like charitable donations.
 

A Stanford study co-authored by E-IPER alum Amy Pickering found that child growth improved when communities in the Republic of Mali, in West Africa, participated in a community-led sanitation program.

In an op-ed, Chris Field and Noah Diffenbaugh explain why a rainy winter brought about by a strong El Niño won't be enough to pull California out of drought.

Stanford Earth scientists find that the evidence for a recent pause in the rate of global warming lacks a sound statistical basis.
 

Stanford researchers are working with local and federal agencies in Los Angeles, Sonoma and other drought-stricken California cities in an unprecedented effort to capture and reuse stormwater.

Stanford Earth students Nina Brooks and KC McKanna were captured in a photo alongside a New York Times story on the rise of the University's Economics Department. The women, who are PhD students in E-IPER, are focused on environmental economics.
 

A new study co-authord by Ken Caldeira found that burning all the world's coal, oil and natural gas would lead to temperature increases that would melt Antarctica's ice sheet and raise sea level more than 200 feet.

Brain scans reveal how people make decisions to protect environmental resources and show why environmental philanthropy might be unique.

Study reveals mysterious pathogen in higher concentrations than thought in trailside ticks in the San Francisco Bay Area.