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June 11, 2020 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
An executive order signed by President Trump last week is intended to speed up infrastructure projects by using emergency authorities to avoid... Read More
June 11, 2020 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the urgent need to help communities better prepare for a range of health and environmental disasters. Experts... Read More
Gross Domestic Product, the standard metric for measuring national economies, doesn’t account for the valuable services provided by nature. A new... Read More
June 9, 2020 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
New research shows living near oil and gas development in California is a risk factor for preterm birth, the leading cause of infant death in the... Read More
June 8, 2020 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, another source of deadly and increasingly frequent disease outbreaks goes largely unnoticed by much of the... Read More
June 2, 2020 | Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions
A key to solving global hunger – which is predicted to intensify during the COVID-19 pandemic – may lie in the ocean. In fact, the ocean could... Read More