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In the Media: Marshall Burke

The Skagit River seen from Diablo Dam in May. Seattle City Light’s Skagit River Hydroelectric Project consists of three dams on the Skagit River that supplies some power to the city of Seattle.
Climate change is making PNW hydropower less reliable
August 7, 2023 | The Seattle Times
Stanford research shows that the American West needs to find drought-compliant sustainable energy sources.
Droughts in Western US fuel emissions, here’s how
July 27, 2023 | Down to Earth
Recent study from Inês Azevedo, Noah Diffenbaugh, and colleagues covers hydropower emissions and renewable energy sources. 
Soaring temperatures and food prices threaten violent unrest
July 27, 2023 | The Economist
Marshall Burke discusses findings that link temperature, food prices, and unrest.
Water flows through an irrigation canal with a turbine at Ralston Reservoir in Arvada Colo. on Thursday, April 13, 2023.
Drought-driven shift away from hydropower is costing the US West billions of dollars: study
July 17, 2023 | The Hill
Marshall Burke and colleagues discuss new study about the economic, social, and environmental effects of hydropower.
PAGE, ARIZONA - MARCH 27: A view of the Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell on March 27, 2022 in Page, Arizona. As severe drought grips parts of the Western United States, water levels at Lake Powell dropped to their lowest level since the lake was created by the damming the Colorado River in 1963. Lake Powell is currently at 25 percent of capacity, a historic low, and has also lost at least 7 percent of its total capacity. The Colorado River Basin connects Lake Powell and Lake Mead and supplies water to 40 mill
‘Giant Methane Factories’: Hydropower Has Long Been Touted as Clean Energy. But Is It?
July 14, 2023 | Inside Climate News
Stanford study reveals hydropower contributes more to climate change instead of mitigating it.
A helicopter bucketing a forest fire in British Columbia
Stanford Experts on Wildfires, Climate Change and Health Impacts | Media Coverage
July 12, 2023 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
As smoke from Canadian wildfires is polluting air across much of the northeastern US, Stanford wildfire experts have been quoted and interviewed in... Read More
How the Western drought has increased carbon emissions
July 10, 2023 | Grist
Inês Azevedo, Marshall Burke, and colleagues on recent study about hydropower climate impacts.
Wildfire smog blanketed Montreal on Monday.Credit...
The Emerging Science of Tracing Smoke Back to Wildfires
June 28, 2023 | The New York Times
Marshall Burke and colleagues discuss new study on tracking wildfire origins.
El Ninos are far costlier than once thought, in the trillions, study says -- and one’s brewing now
May 18, 2023 | Associated Press
Stanford's Marshall Burke says that recent research out of Dartmouth worries him about the upcoming and likely large El Nino. 

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