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Stanford Experts on Hurricane Harvey Impacts »
Stanford experts comment on how climate change and infrastructure planning contribute to the severity of impacts from extreme weather events like Hurricane Harvey.
By Devon Ryan,
Jordan Faces More Frequent Long and Severe Droughts »
Jordan is among the world’s most water-poor nations, and a new, comprehensive analysis of regional drought and land-use changes in upstream Syria suggests the conditions could get...
By Rob Jordan,
An Unsettling Paradise of Our Own Design »
Augmented reality artwork created in collaboration with climate scientists envisions impact of future climate change on plants.
By Joanna Nurmis,
Roadmaps for an All-Renewable Energy World »
Study creates roadmaps for 139 countries to convert to 100-percent clean, renewable energy for all purposes. If implemented, the roadmaps would curtail global warming, reduce air...
By Rob Jordan,
Growing Carbon Offsets on Trees »
A pioneering California program to sell carbon offsets has surprising environmental benefits – including providing habitat for endangered species – and provides lessons for...
By Rob Jordan,
Q&A with Leon Szeptycki: Climate change & water in the West »
Leon Szeptycki, executive director of Stanford’s Water in the West program, discusses the challenges and responses to managing water in a changing climate.
By Devon Ryan,
New Tool for Planning Groundwater Recharge »
Stanford environmental engineers have developed a planning tool called AquaCharge that helps urban water utilities develop efficient and cost-effective systems to replenish aquifers.
By Edmund Andrews,
Designing Infrastructure for a Changing Climate »
Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh joins a team of scientists and engineers who will study the future of infrastructure design in California under worsening climate change...
By Joanna Nurmis,
The unique system of hydraulic control of fins discovered in tuna indicates a new role for the lymphatic system in vertebrates. This natural mechanism may inspire designs for new...
By Taylor Kubota,
Collaboration Meets Innovation »
Stanford funding kickstarts research aimed at developing a range of transformative environmental solutions.
By Rob Jordan,
Ecological Underpinnings of Rural Poverty »
A first-of-its-kind effort combines economic, ecological and epidemiological models. The lessons learned could inform interventions to lift people out of poverty.
By Rob Jordan,
Prelude to Global Extinction »
Biologists say disappearance of species tells only part of the story of human impact on Earth’s animals. The first such global evaluation finds more than 30 percent of all vertebrates...
By Rob Jordan,
Stanford researchers have found that humpback whales flap their foreflippers like penguins or sea lions. This unexpected observation helps explain whale maneuvering and could improve...
By Taylor Kubota,
Corals May Hold Cancer Insights »
Stanford researchers are exploring how corals that re-colonized Bikini Atoll after nuclear bomb tests 70 years ago have adapted to persistent radiation. Their work is featured in a...
By Rob Jordan,
Stanford Sociologist Attempts to Explain Puzzling Lack of Grassroots Climate Change Activism in U.S. »
Sociologist Doug McAdam examined 40 years of research and theory on social movements in an attempt to determine why a sustained grassroots movement on climate change has not developed...
By Milenko Martinovich
Stanford Biologist Awarded $450,000 Prize for Contributing to Global Environmental Solutions »
Gretchen Daily honored with Blue Planet Prize for her work to harmonize people and nature.
By Rob Jordan,
DNA Left by Ocean Animals Provides Rare Glimpse of Marine Ecosystems »
As ocean animals swim past, they leave behind DNA. Now, scientists have shown these genetic clues can be used as forensic markers to accurately and easily survey marine life in...
By Rob Jordan,
Emphasizing Individual Solutions Can Reduce Support for Govt. Efforts »
Experiments by a Stanford political science graduate student suggest that making individuals aware of how they can help solve large-scale environmental problems makes them less likely...
By Taylor Kubota,
What are the repercussions of President Trump's decision to back out of the 2015 global climate agreement forged by 195 countries in Paris? Stanford's leaders and scholars on this...
World’s Smallest Primate Could Provide Huge Health Insights »
Stanford researchers have identified more than 20 mouse lemurs with genetic traits for conditions such as heart disease and eye problems, making the tiny primates potentially useful...
By Ruthann Richter,
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