The Woods Institute is now part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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August 7, 2017
The American West has always been a region of water extremes – from droughts that parch the landscape one year to extreme wet weather and flooding... Read More
August 4, 2017
The federal government reports that 40 states expect water shortages by 2024 and water worries already plague some cities across the United States.... Read More
August 1, 2017
California, the seventh largest economy in the world, is a worldwide leader in climate change adaptation. The state continues to innovate in this... Read More
July 21, 2017
Cutting through the ocean like a jet through the sky, giant bluefin tuna are built for performance, endurance and speed. Just as the fastest planes... Read More
July 19, 2017
What do bird flight mechanics and renewable energy technology have to do with each other? By combining ongoing Stanford research on both, researchers... Read More
July 14, 2017
Deep in landlocked Africa, a miracle is unfolding. Less than a generation after a genocidal civil war left it in ruins, Rwanda is defying poverty... Read More
July 10, 2017
No bells tolled when the last Catarina pupfish on Earth died. Newspapers didn’t carry the story when the Christmas Island pipistrelle vanished... Read More
July 10, 2017
When Jeremy Goldbogen, an assistant professor of biology at Stanford University, affixed recording devices to humpback whales, it was with the hope... Read More
June 28, 2017
More than 70 years after the U.S. tested atomic bombs on a ring of sand in the Pacific Ocean called Bikini Atoll, Stanford researchers are studying... Read More
