People&Planet is the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment’s monthly newsletter, sharing Stanford research, people in the news, programs and events related to the environment. Read past issues
The effort expands on a previous initiative in Northern California that provided the only reported detections of monkeypox genetic material in sewage...
August 4, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford marine biologists, epidemiologists, geneticists, engineers, and others soon will collaborate to develop new water purification technology,... Read More
August 2, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
With extreme weather events on the rise around the globe, heat waves are impacting people, economies, and infrastructure. A July 28 webinar hosted by... Read More
A tiny new device allows scientists to directly observe and quantify how rocks change in the presence of acids, enabling more accurate assessments of... Read More
A Stanford researcher and colleagues have shown that electric charge transfer when water droplets contact solid materials can spontaneously produce... Read More
July 20, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
(See video and recap from related July 28 webinar here.)
News stories of farmhands and other outdoor workers dying from heat-related impacts are... Read More