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October 4, 2018
A new Stanford program, supported by a gift from Bank of America, will fund research to develop the finance and policy tools needed for the... Read More
October 2, 2018
Cash-strapped environmental regulators have a powerful and cheap new weapon. Machine learning methods could more than double the number of violations... Read More
October 1, 2018
As environmental challenges become increasingly complex, the need for broadly focused approaches grows. That calls for an entirely new community to... Read More
September 26, 2018
Engineers carted their extremely sensitive lab equipment to the forests of Costa Rica, where they teamed up with ecologists to meticulously record... Read More
September 24, 2018
An idea hatched by two Stanford graduate students in an engineering and entrepreneurship class won a global competition for climate change-focused... Read More
September 21, 2018 | Stanford News Service
California is embarking on an effort to launch its own satellites to study pollutants – an approach many Stanford researchers have taken advantage of... Read More
September 20, 2018 | Diverse Forests are Stronger Against Drought
Diversity reigns when water gets scarce. New research suggests the most resilient forests are made up of trees that have a wider variety of rates for... Read More
September 18, 2018
Driven by public pressure, governments and corporations are considering eliminating or phasing out single-use plastics such as straws. Stanford... Read More
September 17, 2018
During an event at the Global Climate Action Summit, experts from Stanford and the Woodrow Wilson International Center discussed new evidence to... Read More
