News and Press Releases: Climate
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,
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,
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,
Collaboration Meets Innovation »
Stanford funding kickstarts research aimed at developing a range of transformative environmental solutions.
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
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...
Stanford's Commitment to Progress on Climate Change »
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell affirm the university's commitment to finding climate change solutions.
By Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Persis Drell,
Q&A with Stanford experts on the president’s Paris agreement decision »
The president announced that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. Four Stanford scholars discuss the implications of this decision.
By Devon Ryan,
Assuming easy carbon removal from the atmosphere is a high-stakes gamble »
Stanford scientists explain the risks of betting the world’s future on massive-scale deployment of carbon removal technologies.
By Devon Ryan,
How to Reduce Impact of Climate Change on Human Health »
Report offers wide-ranging recommendations to U.S. president for mitigating the grave effects of climate change on human health. The paper was produced in conjunction with the Climate...
By Jennie Dusheck,
What a Warming Planet Means for Mosquito-Borne Diseases »
A new analysis by Stanford researchers reveals that the ideal temperature for the spread of mosquito-born diseases like dengue, chikungunya and Zika is 29 degrees C. This finding...
By Sarah Derouin,
A New Mechanism for Carbon Sequestration »
A new study reveals that organic matter whose breakdown would yield only minimal energy for hungry microorganisms preferentially builds up in floodplains, illuminating a new mechanism...
By Adam Hadhazy,
Studying how and why bridges have collapsed in the past identifies the limitation of current risk assessment approach and demonstrates the value of new perspectives on climate change...
By Rob Jordan,
Humans Can Ease Climate Change Impacts on Oceans »
Investment and innovation are key to solving a 'crisis of motivation,' according to expert analysis.
By Polita Glynn,
Testing Links Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change »
A new four-step “framework” aims to test the contribution of climate change to record-setting extreme weather events.
By Ker Than,
“Tomorrow” Screening at Stanford University »
French filmmaker Cyril Dion joined Stanford environmental experts for a screening of the documentary “Tomorrow” about taking steps to a more sustainable future.
By Devon Ryan,
Stanford Woods Institute Announces William and Eva Price Senior Fellowship »
Stanford Woods Institute Advisory Council member William "Bill" Price and his wife Eva are dedicated supporters of interdisciplinary environmental research, with a particular passion...
EPA Methane Emission Policy Likely to Cost Less, Miss 2025 Targets »
Stanford research shows plugging methane leaks will cost about a third less than the EPA estimates, further underscoring the cost-effectiveness of emissions mitigation – but the...
By Danielle Torrent Tucker,
Perspective: Let's Stop Talking About Climate Change »
Instead of talking about the polarized topic of climate change, Stanford Earth scientist Rob Jackson suggests focusing on the shared benefits of addressing the problem, including job...
By Rob Jordan,
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