Stanford Earth's Cassandra Brooks and Daniel Swain Cassandra Brooks and Daniel Swain are among twenty-two environmental scholars who received this year's Switzer Environmental Fellowship.

An international research team reports that the rapid increase in global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has slowed in the past two years, underlining the need for action to permanently lower emissions.

Bacteria living in shallow sediment layers of permanently flooded wetlands in Asia drive arsenic release into water by feeding on freshly deposited plant material, a new study finds.

Schedule of Earth System Science Graduate Student Presentations at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting from Dec. 14-18, 2015 at Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.

Undergraduate researchers pursue issues of food and soil while dodging tornadoes at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

New analysis shows big benefits of carbon capture and storage technologies.

New research finds that without climate change mitigation, even wealthy countries will see an economic downturn by 2100.

In a world transformed by climate change and human activity, conserving biodiversity and protecting species will require an interdisciplinary combination of ecological and social research methods.

Stanford students learn both theory and best practice of agricultural sustainability on six-acre site.

A new study finds that organic compounds in groundwater aquifers overlying the Marcellus Shale is likely due to surface releases from hydraulic fracturing operations and not migration from gas wells or deep shale layers.

Replacing older natural gas pipelines reduces leaks and improves consumer safety.

A new study by PhD students Matthew Winnick and Jeremy Caves suggests that today's ice sheets may be more resilient to increased carbon dioxide levels than previously thought.

Stanford Earth scientist Scott Fendorf helped discover how trace amounts of arsenic were moving from sediments into groundwater aquifers in Southern California.