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Stanford scientists develop 'Shazam for earthquakes'

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

A new algorithm designed to find matching seismic signals in large earthquake databases could find previously missed microquakes.

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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

Mystery of arsenic release into groundwater solved

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

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.

December 4, 2015
Fresh Water Resources, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
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