The Woods Institute is now part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
All News
January 13, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Decades after the industrialized world largely eliminated lead poisoning in children, the potent neurotoxin still lurks in one in three children... Read More
January 12, 2021 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Stanford experts discuss the causes and impacts of wildfire activity and its rapid acceleration in the American West.
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
December 21, 2020 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
2020 was an unprecedented year. We are grateful for all the Stanford Woods community has done to meet environmental challenges together, and to... Read More
December 9, 2020 | Stanford News Service
When wildfires swept through the North Bay in 2017, graduate student Gabriel Smith saw a unique opportunity to study how fire affected his research... Read More
December 9, 2020 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
A collection of research and insights from Stanford experts who are deciphering the mysteries and mechanisms of extinction and survival in Earth’s... 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
December 8, 2020 | Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions
A new Stanford-led study aims to model and analyze the impacts of combined stressors on Arctic marine ecosystems and key species populations from... Read More
December 7, 2020 | Program on Water, Health & Development
A new wastewater testing approach capable of better detecting viral infection patterns in communities could prove a crucial step toward an informed... Read More
