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February 18, 2020 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Alexandra Konings received a 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to explore new ways of understanding how plants respond to the... Read More
February 10, 2020
Natural areas that can absorb huge quantities of carbon dioxide could play a crucial role in combatting climate change. However, our ability to... Read More
February 6, 2020 | Stanford's Program on Water, Health and Development
A new study identifies varying pathways of drinking water contamination, suggesting multiple types of public health interventions are needed to... Read More
February 3, 2020 | Natural Capital Project
New research maps where hydropower dams impact species critical to human livelihoods.
January 31, 2020 | SCOPE Blog
Are the buildings that we live and work in stressing us out?
The answer is probably yes, according to Stanford engineer Sarah Billington, PhD, and... Read More
January 30, 2020
Future leaders will need a diverse and interdisciplinary skill set to solve the major environmental challenges we face. This means not only grasping... Read More
January 27, 2020 | Natural Capital Project
Stanford Natural Capital Project co-founder awarded Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for illuminating and quantifying the economic value of... 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
January 22, 2020 | Stanford News Service
Stanford researchers predict that climate change will reduce the diversity of symbiotic fungi that help trees grow.
