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July 25, 2023 | Stanford Doerr School for Sustainability
Senior Fellows Manu Prakash and Kevin Arrigo are leading a Stanford expedition in the Arctic to explore how an ice-free Arctic may transform the... Read More
workers paving road
July 18, 2023 | Stanford News Service
Stanford engineers Zhiye Li and Michael Lepech discuss the potential for reusing discarded plastic in infrastructure applications.
In states that rely heavily on hydropower for electricity generation, emissions caused by drought-induced shifts in the energy supply could account for up to 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions from electricity in future drought years.
July 17, 2023 | Stanford News
Switching from hydropower to fossil fuels during droughts has led to higher carbon emissions and cost 11 Western states tens of billions of dollars... Read More
sea turtle
July 12, 2023 | Stanford News Service
Scientists are tracking the epic migration of 100 endangered North Pacific loggerhead turtles from Japan to test a hypothesis that warm water events... Read More
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July 11, 2023 | Stanford Law School
Implementing “climate-smart” forestry practices—such as expanding urban forests, integrating trees into pasture lands, and accelerating reforestation... Read More
wind turbines
July 6, 2023 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
As an environmental trailblazer with the fifth largest economy in the world, California’s energy decisions are sure to make big waves. Policymakers... Read More
Researchers and collaborators discuss their ongoing pilot study work
July 5, 2023 | Stanford Doerr School for Sustainability
New study reveals how people in low-income communities of color are inequitably vulnerable to wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and other hazards fueled... Read More
Perry McCarty
July 3, 2023 | Stanford School of Engineering
McCarty was a groundbreaking environmental engineer for whom directorship of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment is named.
June 29, 2023 | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
The new doctoral program in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability will take an interdisciplinary approach to global marine challenges.

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