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March 18, 2020
A new Stanford study reveals that a common scientific approach of predicting the likelihood of future extreme weather events by analyzing how... Read More
January 27, 2020 | Stanford Earth
By analyzing more than two decades of data in the western U.S., scientists have shown that flood sizes increase exponentially as a higher fraction of... Read More
June 24, 2019 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
New research shows that atmospheric rivers – plumes of moisture that deliver much of the west’s precipitation – have gotten warmer over the past 36... Read More
May 23, 2019
On May 23, Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh testified before the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, explaining the... Read More
May 20, 2019
This Thursday, May 23, Stanford climate change scientist Noah Diffenbaugh will testify before a new legislative committee charged with delivering... Read More
April 23, 2019 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
The gap between the economic output of the world’s richest and poorest countries is 25 percent larger today than it would have been without global... Read More
December 21, 2018 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Recent droughts caused increases in emissions of carbon dioxide and harmful air pollutants from power generation in several western states as fossil... Read More
December 13, 2018
Stanford researchers along with scholars across the country find the evidence for greenhouse gases endangering human health and welfare is even more... Read More
November 28, 2018 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Odds are rising that warm, dry conditions – the kind that can hurt crop yields, destabilize food prices and exacerbate wildfires – will strike... Read More
