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February 22, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Children exposed to air pollution, such as wildfire smoke and car exhaust, for as little as one day may be doomed to higher rates of heart disease... Read More
Stanford ecologists have conducted one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses of plastic ingestion by marine fish and shown that the rate of... Read More
February 3, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
New kinds of challenges require new kinds of leaders. The Earth Leadership Program (ELP), an innovative effort to train environmental scientists with... Read More
January 29, 2021 | Adapted from Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Beyond the ski slopes, one of the most iconic symbols of the Alps are the alpine flowers. These plants are not only beautiful--they are also used in... Read More
January 28, 2021 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
James Holland Jones comments on his new research published in Nature Human Behaviour, which argues that the increasingly gendered division of labor... Read More
January 28, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
A new study demonstrates substantial changes in agricultural practices will be necessary to achieve the goals of the Paris climate accord, the 2015... Read More