Past Media Coverage: 2014
These two states had the same basic information about fracking. They made very different decisions »
Senior Fellow Rob Jackson (Environmental Earth System Science) discusses factors that may have influenced decisions about banning fracking.
By Chris Mooney,
New Science Paints Picture of Salmon Shark Diet »
Cites research by Stanford postdoctoral scholar Aaron Carlisle (Biology) and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Barbara Block (Biology) that uses information about salmon shark diets to inform details about their life history.
By Joe Rosato Jr.,
California drought: Storm gives bump to state water supplies »
Stanford doctoral student Daniel Swain (Environmental Earth System Science), a 2013 Rising Environmental Leadership Program participant, explains that the drought-sparking system over the Pacific Ocean (which he coined the...
By Kurtis Alexander,
Scientists Track Down Serious Methane Leaks In Natural Gas Wells »
Senior Fellow Robert Jackson (Environmental Earth System Science) discusses results of study on methane released from fracking
By Christopher Joyce,
California just had its worst drought in over 1200 years, as temperatures and risks rise »
Cites research led by Senior Fellow Noah Diffenbaugh (Environmental Earth System Science) that found that persistent high-pressure ridges are more likely to sit off California’s coast in the presence of high levels of greenhouse gases...
By Dana Nuccitelli,
How California’s Water Rights Make It Tough to Manage Drought »
Woods Co-Director and Senior Fellow Buzz Thompson discusses the intricacies of California water rights.
By Lauren Sommer,
U.S. Senate Approves New DOE Science Undersecretary »
Announces confirmation of Woods Senior Fellow Franklin "Lynn" Orr (Energy Resources Engineering) as U.S. undersecretary for science and energy
By David Malakoff,
Reopen Barnett Shale Water Probe »
Op-ed by Senior Fellow Robert Jackson on contamination of drinking water by oil and gas drilling
By Robert Jackson,
'How Long Will It Last, and How Do We Plan?' California Drought Foreshadows Crisis for Rest of West »
Quotes Leon Szeptycki, executive director of the Water in the West, on California's record-breaking drought
By Brett French,
Getting Our Money’s Worth From $7.5 Billion Water Bond »
Op-ed by Woods Co-Director and Senior Fellow Buzz Thompson on merits of California's Proposition 1
By Barton “Buzz” Thompson,
Senior Fellow Robert Jackson discusses a method of “water forensics” that could help determine if a frackwater spill is the source of environmental contamination
By Emmett Fitzgerald,
India Air Pollution 'Cutting Crop Yields by Almost Half' »
Quotes Senior Fellow David Lobell on study findings that air pollution in India has become so severe that yields of crops are being cut by almost half
By Azeen Ghorayshi,
Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink »
Smithsonian channel documentary that features work of Senior Fellow Elizabeth Hadly in Yellowstone National Park
Jerry Brown Takes the Long View on Water »
Notes that Gov. Jerry Brown spoke at the "New Directions for U.S. Water Policy" forum, co-sponsored by the Stanford Woods Institute and The Hamilton Project
By Jeremy B. White,
California’s Brown Calls Conservation Priority in Drought »
Quotes Gov. Jerry Brown on comments he made at forum co-hosted by Stanford Woods Institute
By By Alison Vekshin,
Gov. Jerry Brown Touts Decades of Experience on Water Policy »
Notes that Gov. Jerry Brown spoke at the "New Directions for U.S. Water Policy" forum, co-sponsored by the Stanford Woods Institute and The Hamilton Project
By Melanie Mason,
California Drought: Gov. Jerry Brown Touts Water Bond Measure at Stanford Summit »
Notes that Gov. Jerry Brown spoke at the "New Directions for U.S. Water Policy" forum, co-sponsored by the Stanford Woods Institute and The Hamilton Project
By Lisa Krieger,
Trillions in Global Cash Await Call to Fix Crumbling U.S. »
Quotes Senior Fellow Raymond Levitt (Civil and Environmental Engineering) on the potential success of the Ohio River project, a long-languishing effort to connect two new bridges to interstate highways, as a positive signal to foreign...
By Mark Niquette,
Quotes Woods Co-Director and Senior Fellow Buzz Thompson (Law) on the need for effective water markets, and mentions forum hosted by Woods and the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution
By Eduardo Porter,
Is Targeting Access to Sanitation Enough? »
Commentary by Senior Fellow Stephen Luby (Medicine) explaining why many well-funded sanitation programs may actually be misguided because they fail to focus on issues such as changing defecation habits, handwashing promotion, rotavirus...
By Stephen Luby,