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Our goal is to understand, predict, and respond to human-caused and natural environmental change at local to global scales.

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Student Highlight: ESS Graduate Student Presentations at AGU Fall Meeting

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

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.

November 19, 2015

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Contaminant and Nutrient Cycling

Human Environment Interactions

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2015 Switzer Environmental Fellowship Awardees

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

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.

December 10, 2015

Global fossil-fuel emissions could decline in 2015

Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy

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.

December 9, 2015

Climate Change, Energy

Research Spotlight: Palm oil, rainforests and farmers in Cameroon

Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment

Elsa Ordway's research examines the rapidly growing palm oil industry in Cameroon, with the aim of identifying where palm oil expansion can occur while protecting rainforest ecosystems and the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

December 5, 2015

Food and Agriculture, Human Dimensions and Sustainability

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