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November 8, 2022 | Stanford News Service
American beaver populations are booming in the western United States as conditions grow hotter and drier. New research shows their prolific dam... Read More
August 5, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford engineers, physicians, sociologists, Earth scientists and others soon will collaborate to make cities healthier, revolutionize plastic... Read More
May 5, 2021 | Stanford School of Medicine
Women exposed to higher levels of nitrate in drinking water were more likely to deliver very early, according to a study of 1.4 million California... Read More
December 8, 2020 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
Stanford researchers can predict where and when uranium is released into aquifers and suggest an easy fix to keep this naturally occurring toxin from... Read More
September 24, 2020 | Stanford News
Seventeen seed grants have been awarded to faculty pursuing a broad scope of sustainability research as part of the efforts of a Long-Range Vision... Read More
November 1, 2019 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Research combining future climate conditions and arsenic-induced soil stresses predicts rice yields could decline about 40 percent by 2100, a loss... Read More
May 10, 2019
California struggles to deliver safe drinking water to millions of residents. The challenges – often complex issues at the interface of human,... Read More
July 23, 2018
Natural sources of the toxic form of chromium appear in wells that provide drinking water to a large population in California, offering a new... Read More
June 5, 2018
Pumping an aquifer to the last drop squeezes out more than water. A Stanford study finds it can also unlock dangerous arsenic from buried clays – and... Read More
