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Researchers tested a low-cost, low-tech intervention to reduce pollution from brick kilns in Bangladesh. Stanford co-authors discuss insights from the study about scaling clean technologies in informal and unregulated industries.
A Stanford study reveals how climate change has altered growing conditions for the world’s five major crops over the past half century and is reshaping agriculture. The impacts corroborate climate models used to predict impacts, with a couple of important exceptions, according to the researchers.
Stanford students are helping rural energy non-governmental organizations put health at the center of energy decisions – replacing fossil fuels with more sustainable options.
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“Not having the NCA is like driving a car with a dirty windshield,” said Stanford environmental scientist Chris Field. “It’s hard to detect risks until they unfold as disasters.” With the Trump-era delay of the National Climate Assessment, the U.S. may be heading straight into the storm—without seeing it coming.
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The first hints of the “White Shark Café” surfaced in the late 1990s, when Stanford marine biologist Barbara Block began satellite-tagging great white sharks. Instead of sticking to coastal waters, the sharks were making unexpected offshore migrations—into the deep unknown.
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“When I think about the major categories of infectious diseases impacted by climate change, I group them into three big buckets: respiratory, waterborne, and vector-borne diseases,” said Angelle Desiree Labeaud, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.
