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Ecosystem Services and Conservation
Your Brain on Nature
Woods Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily (Biology) discusses her research on how nature can improve well-being.
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How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain
Features research co-authored by Woods Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily (Biology) about how a walk in nature affects the brain.
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River Prawn Becomes New Weapon Against Schistosomiasis
Discusses research findings from Woods Senior Fellow Giulio De Leo (Biology), Woods Affiliate Susanne Sokolow and other researchers on using prawns to fight Schistosomiasis in Senegal.
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The Power of Green Space
Features research co-authored by Woods Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily (Biology) about how a walk in nature affects the brain
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Can You Prescribe Nature?
Discusses research, co-authored by Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily (Biology) on the mental health benefits of time in nature
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How Walking in Nature Prevents Depression
Features research on nature's effect on rumination co-authored by Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily
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New Research Suggests Nature Walks Are Good for Your Brain
Discusses research co-authored by Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily
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The “Sixth Extinction” Adds Urgency to Habitat and Climate Protection
Discusses a study co-authored by Senior Fellow Paul Ehrlich (Humanities and Sciences) on how humans have created the sixth mass extinction, and how only we can slow it down.
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Putting a Price on Nature
Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily emphasizes that, in natural capital accounting, economics are just part of a complex balance sheet that also considers cultural, educational, community values. Anne Guerry, Woods Academic Research Staff and Chief Strategy Officer & Lead Scientist at the Natural Capital Project discusses the progress natural capital accounting has made in the past decade.
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From Whales to Waste: Costa Rica’s Community Residents Apply Geospatial Technologies to Solve Local Problems
Notes that Stanford's Osa & Golfito Initiative and the Caminos de Liderazgo Project have supported GPS workshops for Costa Rican communities to identify methodologies for community monitoring using geospatial technologies.
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Big Animals are Going the Way of the Mammoth
Rodolfo Dirzo (Biology), a co-author of the study, states that humans will feel social and health consequences as well, in the form of higher wildfire risks and increased rodent-borne disease.
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Restoring Threatened Mussels To Freshwater Could Cut E. Coli Contamination
Cites research findings by Senior Woods Fellow Alexandria Boehm (Engineering), Senior Woods Fellow Richard Luthy (Engineering), and Niveen Ismail, a Stanford graduate student in environmental engineering, that mussels can remove contaminants such as Escherichia coli from freshwater.
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The Monterey Bay catch is a bit of a mystery. And cheap. And delicious.
Senior Fellow Steve Palumbi, by courtesy, (Biology) discusses how choosing to eat mackerel is both an environmentally friendly and healthy choice.
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Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
Smithsonian channel documentary that features work of Senior Fellow Elizabeth Hadly in Yellowstone National Park
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Lighting Cultural Fires
Discusses research by Woods-affiliated researchers Rebecca and Doug Bird, looking at the use of fire among California Indians and Aboriginal Australians
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We Are on the Verge of a Sixth Mass Extinction
Discusses research led by Senior Fellow Rodolfo Dirzo
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Global Warming May Mean Bye-Bye for Some Birdies
Quotes Senior Fellow Terry Root on report that finds climate change will drive approximately 650 North American bird species to smaller spaces or new habitats over next 65 years
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The Future of Virtual Reality
Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University talks to Michael Krasny on KQED's forum.
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Back From the Dead: Why De-Extinction May Save Humanity
Describes research by Woods Senior Fellow Rodolfo Dirzo on how "the well-being of natural ecosystems including the animals, actually represents the well-being of humans as well"
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Researchers Warn of Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction Event
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow Rodolfo Dirzo, a Stanford biology professor, on risks linked to the loss and decline of animal species
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