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Global warming increased U.S. crop insurance losses by $27 billion in 27 years, Stanford study finds
August 4, 2021 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Higher temperatures attributed to climate change caused payouts from the nation’s biggest farm support program to increase by $27 billion between... Read More
July 12, 2021 | School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Governor Newsom met with scientists and climate change experts including Diffenbaugh to examine how the state can accelerate progress toward climate... Read More
April 29, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
When President Joe Biden addressed a joint session of Congress, a common thread ran through much of his narrative: resilience.
March 19, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
As the U.S. Congress moves to prioritize climate change-related issues, unbiased scientific insight is in high demand. The U.S. House of... Read More
January 11, 2021 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Researchers found that 36 percent of the costs of flooding in the U.S. from 1988 to 2017 were a result of intensifying precipitation, consistent with... Read More
September 24, 2020 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Researchers have identified a new type of “landfalling drought” that originates over the ocean before traveling onto land, and which can cause larger... Read More
August 27, 2020 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Unusual lightning strikes sparked the massive wildfires burning across California. Stanford climate and wildfire experts discuss extreme weather’s... Read More
July 29, 2020 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
The researchers hypothesize outcomes of the pandemic’s unprecedented socioeconomic disruption and outline research priorities for advancing our... Read More
April 2, 2020
Study finds that autumn days with extreme fire weather have more than doubled in California since the early 1980s due to climate change. The results... Read More
