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Understanding how sunscreens damage coral
May 6, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
You can love something to death. That is one way of thinking about a new Stanford University study that reveals how a common component of many... Read More
Saving the Mekong River Delta from drowning
May 6, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Southeast Asia’s most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong... Read More
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, university’s first new school in 70 years, will accelerate solutions to global climate crisis
May 4, 2022 | Stanford News Service
Investments of $1.1 billion from John and Ann Doerr, along with gifts from other philanthropists, catalyze interdisciplinary efforts to tackle urgent... Read More
Stanford’s Britt Wray on the intersection of climate change and mental health
May 3, 2022 | Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Planetary Postdoctoral Health Fellow Britt Wray discusses her recently published book about dealing with climate anxiety and her own path to finding... Read More
Watershed Moment: Bringing longtime adversaries together to bridge an uncomfortable divide
May 3, 2022 | Stanford Magazine
Feature story on a historic hydropower and healthy rivers agreement brokered by a working group organized by Woods senior research scholar Dan... Read More
How one ‘extreme’ plant could help Stanford biologists engineer climate-resistant crops
May 2, 2022 | Stanford News Service
Stanford biologist José Dinneny is studying why one plant grows faster in stressful conditions. His results could help scientists engineer food and... Read More
Woods fellow Rob Jackson among Stanford faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 29, 2022 | Stanford News Service
Nine Stanford faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary... Read More
Stanford experts discuss California’s 30x30 initiative – one of the most ambitious conservation efforts ever
April 25, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
One of the most ambitious conservation efforts ever, California’s 30×30 initiative aims to protect plant and animal life across 30 percent of the... Read More
Investigating the connection between places and people
April 21, 2022 | Stanford Graduate School of Education
Nicole Ardoin and her team work to understand how people feel about the world around them — and what they’re able and willing to do to protect it.

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