The Woods Institute is now part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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September 24, 2019
Some spice processors in Bangladesh use an industrial lead chromate pigment to imbue turmeric with a bright yellow color prized for curries and other... Read More
September 3, 2019
The realities of subsistence living in a region of Senegal hard hit by schistosomiasis make reinfection likely, despite mass drug administration.... Read More
August 5, 2019
A survey of adult former smokers, current smokers and people who have never smoked found that people perceived cigarettes marketed as being... Read More
July 29, 2019
A new battery made from affordable and durable materials generates energy from places where salt and fresh waters mingle. The technology could make... Read More
July 23, 2019
Stanford human rights experts, engineers, economists, geologists, marine biologists and others soon will collaborate on finding new ways to combat... Read More
July 7, 2019 | Center for Ocean Solutions
Restoring ecological interactions may hold the key to poverty alleviation and disease reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa, a new study finds.
May 20, 2019
A seemingly counterintuitive approach – converting one greenhouse gas into another – holds promise for returning the atmosphere to pre-industrial... Read More
May 6, 2019
Measurements of suspended sediment concentrations reveal a lot about the health of a waterway, but until now such data has been difficult to obtain.
March 11, 2019 | Stanford Medicine magazine
Stanford epidemiologist Stephen Luby is on a quest to save lives by cleaning up production of a ubiquitous building material.
