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Ecosystem Services and Conservation
Scientists Warn of Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction Event
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow Rodolfo Dirzo on the "vicious cycle" of large animal decline caused by humans' impacts on ecosystems
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Study: Earth in the Midst of Sixth Mass Extinction
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow Rodolfo Dirzo on how animals play an important role in ecosystems that are now being threatened
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Where Have all the Animals Gone?
Feature story on extinction study by Senior Fellow Rodolfo Dirzo
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Our Taste for Cheap Palm Oil Is Killing Chimpanzees
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow Lisa Curran, professor of environmental anthropology, on the effects of palm oil plantations on the environment
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Study: Salamanders in the Appalachians Are Smaller
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow Paul Ehrlich on the possible link between climate change and the diminishing size of salamanders in the Appalachian Mountains.
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Increase Genetic Diversity to Save Tigers: Study
Quotes Rachael Bay, graduate student in biology and lead author of a study coauthored by Woods Senior Fellow Elizabeth Hadly that found increasing genetic diversity among tigers is the key to their survival as a species
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Should Scientists 'Jurassic-Park' Extinct Species Back to Life?
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow Paul Ehrlich on the disadvantages of de-extinction science
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New Study Challenges Old Thinking About Extinctions Worldwide
Refers to study on bat diversity led by Ph.D. student Chase Mendenhall and co-authored by Woods Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily
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Earth's Extinction Rate Highly Exaggerated: Study
Quotes Liz Hadly, Woods senior fellow, and Chase Mendenhall, doctoral student in biology, on study that found human-altered landscapes can foster more biological diversity than we anticipated
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Defaunation: Loss of Animals, Threatening Rainforests and Public Health
Video and blog describe Senior Fellows Rodolfo Dirzo's findings that poaching of large mammals is leading to a disruption of carnivore and herbivore populations
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Panel's Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come
Quotes Woods Senior Fellows Chris Field and David Lobell on findings of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that climate change is already responsible for major changes on every continent. Stanford played a major role in creating the report; Stanford climate scientists were quoted in more than 50 major media print, website and broadcast stories, including NPR, the BBC, USA Today, Associated Press, The Guardian, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News, KRON-TV, KGO Radio, the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, The Financial Times, National Geographic, Salon.com, The Weather Channel, Forbes, Reuters, Examiner.com, the Huffington Post, the Toronto Star and USEmbassy.gov (an international news site managed by the U.S. State Department).
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Snowfall No Longer a Sure Bet, Booming Ski Towns Fight Going Bust
Quotes Senior Fellows Terry Root and Noah Diffenbaugh on the lack of snow at ski resorts
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Viewpoints: Environmental Water Market Would Help the Losers in This Drought
Op-ed authors, including Stanford Woods Institute Co-Director Buzz Thompson, argue for special water market during drought
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Ants in Space! Cygnus Craft Delivers 640 New Astronauts to Space Station
Describes Woods Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon's studies of ants and how humans may learn from them
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Efforts to Curb Unbridled Grown That's Killing the Planet
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily on quiet efforts to include the value of nature in economic decision making
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