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May 21, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
On May 6, Debra Roberts, head of the Sustainable and Resilient City Initiatives Unit in the eThekwini Municipality (Durban, South Africa) and Co-... Read More
May 20, 2021 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Researchers have detected groundwater beneath a glacier in Greenland for the first time using airborne radar data, a technique that could allow for... Read More
May 7, 2021 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
A fossil study finds the diversity of life in the world’s oceans declined time and again over the past 145 million years during periods of extreme... Read More
Women exposed to higher levels of nitrate in drinking water were more likely to deliver very early, according to a study of 1.4 million California... Read More
May 5, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
In recognition of Earth Week, Hilary Tompkins, a partner at Washington, D.C. law firm Hogan Lovells and graduate of Stanford Law School, joined... Read More
Researchers from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Lemann Center at Stanford... Read More
May 4, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Health experts have long urged people to eat more fruits and vegetables for a healthy diet, arguing that millions of cases of cardiovascular disease... Read More
May 3, 2021 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Stanford scientists simulated the local risk of damaging or nuisance-level shaking caused by hydraulic fracturing across the Eagle Ford shale... Read More