The Woods Institute is now part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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October 16, 2017
Adam Stanford-Moore was cautiously hopeful he could spend the summer pursuing a meaningful environmental solution. The outdoor-loving Stanford... Read More
October 13, 2017
On Tuesday, Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), signed a regulation to repeal the Clean Power Plan, President Obama’s... Read More
October 9, 2017
Trees in tropical forests are well known for removing carbon dioxide from the air and storing the potent greenhouse gas as carbon in their leafy... Read More
October 5, 2017
If you want to do something about global warming, look under your feet. Managed well, soil’s ability to trap carbon dioxide is potentially much... Read More
October 4, 2017
Ideas aren’t enough to confront an existential threat. Dylan MacArthur-Waltz learned that lesson on the third day of his internship with the... Read More
October 3, 2017
Imagine you’re a member of the Cephalotes goniodontus species, an arboreal ant with a Darth Vader-like head that has inspired humans to call you “... Read More
September 28, 2017
Water scarcity has often plagued development in the American West, but new research suggests droughts may hurt some more than others in rural areas... Read More
September 26, 2017
Can the economy thrive along with the environment? That question is central to the work of the Natural Capital Project co-founder Gretchen Daily,... Read More
September 20, 2017
In the wake of major hurricanes and devastating flooding events hitting the United States in just the last month, experts from the public, private... Read More
