People&Planet is the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment’s monthly newsletter, sharing Stanford research, people in the news, programs and events related to the environment. Read past issues
March 3, 2021 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Small-scale fisheries, which employ about 90 percent of the world’s fishers and supply half the fish for human consumption, are on the frontlines of... Read More
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
February 19, 2021 | Stanford School of Engineering
Urban Monterey and agricultural Salinas have developed a first-of-its-kind water recycling program that takes a sustainable approach to overcoming... 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