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March 2, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
One person’s wastewater is another person’s treasure. A new Stanford University study paves the way to mining sewage for valuable materials used in... Read More
March 1, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Two new studies – a survey of residents in hurricane-battered Florida and Texas and a survey of people in wildfire-scarred California – reveal that... Read More
February 28, 2022 | Natural Capital Project
To keep tourism revenue flowing, a new method uses NASA satellites and social media to show the benefits of investing in nature — and some roads to... Read More
February 11, 2022 | Stanford Social Innovation Review
Tonya Allen of the McKnight Foundation and John Palfrey of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation discuss how they’re answering the global... Read More
February 9, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Like boxers whose punching power declines over their careers, greenhouse gasses lose their warming impact at different rates. So, to compare gasses’... Read More
February 9, 2022 | Stanford News Service
In 2021, Stanford pediatrician and arbovirologist Desiree LaBeaud and her colleagues launched the nonprofit organization HERI-Kenya to reduce the... Read More
February 7, 2022 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Rapidly growing communities in the American West’s forests and shrublands are nestled in zones where local soil and plant traits amplify the effect... Read More
February 1, 2022 | Stanford News Service
Phasing out animal agriculture represents “our best and most immediate chance to reverse the trajectory of climate change,” according to a new model... Read More
January 28, 2022 | Stanford School of Engineering
A bioengineer is working on methods she hopes will help enable plants to survive increasingly harsh conditions.
