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What Climate Scientists Want You to See in the Floodwaters

The New York Times

New Faculty Position

Department of Earth System Science
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Jordan faces likelihood of more frequent and severe droughts

Stanford New Service
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Climate Lessons from California

The New York Times
Forest with sunlight in background. Photo Credit: Scott Wylie/Flickr

Carbon offsets have wide-ranging environmental benefits

Stanford News Service
Climate Change, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
Child wades through flood water. Credit: Asian Development Bank/Flickr

US Scientists Contradict Trump's Climate Claims

The New York Times
Noah Diffenbaugh

Noah Diffenbaugh appointed to California Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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Mastering the art of environmental and policy engagement

Stanford News Service
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Paying Farmers Not to Cut Down Trees in Uganda Helps Fight Climate Change, New Study Shows

<p>Innovations for Poverty Action</p>
Climate Change, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
wind mills

Collaboration meets innovation in transformative Stanford environmental projects

Stanford News Service
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Stanford’s Three Books program prompts students to think about sustainability and equity

Stanford News Service
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WaterWise at Stanford

Sustainable Stanford
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In final commencement as dean, Matson tells graduates to “get engaged and stay engaged”

Stanford School of Earth, Energy &amp; Environmental Sciences
Pamela Matson in cap and gown

Dean Pamela Matson awarded honorary degree from Princeton

Princeton University News
Pamela Matson in cap and gown at podium

Dean Pamela Matson receives honorary degree from McGill University

McGill University
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Q&A with Stanford experts on the president’s Paris climate agreement decision

Stanford News Service
Climate Change, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
Clouds and lightning in Yellowstone

Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent

Columbia Engineering
Climate Change, Dynamic Earth
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Shunned by microbes, organic carbon can resist breakdown in underground environments

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Climate Change, Evolution of Earth and Life
Oroville Dam

Season of the Switch

San Francisco Magazine
Windmill farm

Forget about climate change

Scientific American
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Stanford study shows U.S. grasslands affected more by atmospheric dryness than precipitation

<p>Stanford School of Earth, Energy &amp; Environmental Sciences</p>
Climate Change, Food and Agriculture
Ellen Ward portrait

Stanford Earth’s Ellen Ward Receives AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Graphic of satellite taking images of Earth from space

Study tracks “memory” of soil moisture

<p>MIT News</p>
Climate Change, Dynamic Earth, Food and Agriculture
cattle with wind farms in the background

Methane from food production could be wildcard in combating climate change

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Climate Change, Food and Agriculture

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