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
August 18, 2022 | Stanford Water in the West Program
Stanford's Felicia Marcus discusses how states can utilize nature-based solutions to help meet climate targets and water objectives while enjoying... Read More
Improved facilities and equipment at the Monterey Bay station will open the door for researchers to study more of the Pacific’s diverse species, gain... Read More
Using synthetic genes, researchers at Stanford have been able to modify the root structures of plants. Their work could make crops more efficient at... Read More
The effort expands on a previous initiative in Northern California that provided the only reported detections of monkeypox genetic material in sewage...
August 4, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford marine biologists, epidemiologists, geneticists, engineers, and others soon will collaborate to develop new water purification technology,... Read More
A tiny new device allows scientists to directly observe and quantify how rocks change in the presence of acids, enabling more accurate assessments of... Read More
August 2, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
With extreme weather events on the rise around the globe, heat waves are impacting people, economies, and infrastructure. A July 28 webinar hosted by... Read More
A Stanford researcher and colleagues have shown that electric charge transfer when water droplets contact solid materials can spontaneously produce... Read More