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
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
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
When Jeremy Goldbogen, an assistant professor of biology at Stanford University, affixed recording devices to humpback whales, it was with the hope... Read More
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
Numerous public opinion polls show that Americans believe climate change is a major problem that needs to be dealt with.
Stanford sociologist Doug... Read More
Your summer vacation plans have changed – you’re going to the moon. Stanford biologist Gretchen Daily wants you to imagine this scenario, and... Read More
The ocean might as well be Mars. Like astronomers grasping at ways to identify life on a distant planet, marine scientists have no easy method for... Read More
Following the shutdown of the Fukushima power plant, which endured one of the worst nuclear accidents in history in 2011 due to a 9.0 magnitude... Read More
Stanford's Commitment to Climate Solutions
Message from Marc Tassier-Lavigne and Persis Drell on Stanford's commitment to progress on climate change... Read More