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Methane Emissions Surged in Last Decade, Study Finds
Study cited by Robert Jackson into the rise of methane gas and how studying it will play a "crucial role in meeting the international goal" of the Paris agreement.
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News coverage of global methane budget analysis
Reports co-authored by Woods Senior Fellow Rob Jackson (Earth System Science) show concentrations of methane approaching an internationally recognized worst-case scenario and highlight opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and fossil fuel use.
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Is Food Our Best Hope for Cutting Methane Emissions?
Robert Jackson, co-author of study citing how a change in the way we think about our food and agriculture process could be the key to curbing climate change
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Study: Warming to Trigger 3 Times as many Downpours in US
Director Chris Field offers thoughts on a new study from NCAR about the increased likelihood of downpours given a changing climate.
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An Open Letter from Scientists to President-Elect Trump on Climate Change
Scientists, including Senior Fellows and Affiliates of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, urge the President-Elect to take crucial steps to address climate change.
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Panel addresses environmental policy under Trump
Environmental policy could face setbacks under a climate-skeptic Trump administration, but it may be too early to call doom and gloom, according to a Stanford Law School panel including Michael Wara and Katharine Mach.
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EPA's late changes to fracking study downplay risk of drinking water pollution
Top officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last year made critical changes at the eleventh hour to a highly anticipated, five-year scientific study of hydraulic fracturing’s effect on the nation’s drinking water. Rob Jackson comments on the changes, later criticized by scientists for lacking evidence, which played down the risk of pollution that can result from the well-drilling technique known as fracking.
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California Case Could Set National Precedent on Indian Water Rights
The Agua Caliente tribe in Palm Springs argues it has a right to groundwater. Stanford's Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson explains how a federal court could soon resolve century-old uncertainties around the issue.
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Stanford Paleoecologist Elizabeth Hadly Takes on the Future
By phone from Mongolia and parts of Africa and in person from her Stanford office, Elizabeth Hadly talks with Bay Nature about tipping points, how local is where it’s at, and the diversity of Bay Area plants and people.
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COP22: Paris was About the Deal, Marrakech the Detail
This recap of the takeaways from COP22 in Marrakech quotes Director Chris Field on the Middle East as a potential leader on clean energy.
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Coverage: climate, environment & 2016 presidential election
Woods-affiliated experts discussed the potential impacts of a Donald Trump presidency on national and international environmental policy.
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What If You Had Ebola And Didn't Even Know It?
Interview with Stanford researcher Gene Richardson, who led study showing Ebola virus does not uniformly cause severe disease. Study coauthors include Woods Senior Fellows James Holland Jones (Anthropology) and Michelle Barry (Medicine).
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Study Suggests Ebola Outbreak Was More Widespread
Features study co-authored by Woods Senior Fellows James Holland Jones (Anthropology) and Michelle Barry (Medicine) showing Ebola virus does not uniformly cause severe disease.
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Kelp Could Be One of the Lone Sea Plant Survivors of Climate Change
Fiorenza Micheli discusses surprising findings about kelp's ability to withstand stressors such as climate change.
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Trump’s ambitious 100-day agenda staring at political reality
Bruce Cain explains why Trump's first 100 days will be "miserable" for Democrats.
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News coverage related to 2016 presidential election
Woods-affiliated experts discussed the potential impacts of a Donald Trump presidency on national and international environmental policy.
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Trump could roll back Obama rules on methane, a potent greenhouse gas
Rob Jackson discusses changed outlook for methane emissions reductions.
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Stanford takes crack at studying Central Coast aquifer seawater intrusion
Features work by Rosemary Knight to use analyize saltwater intrusion along California's Central Coast with geophysical imaging.
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We have 20 years -- at the very most -- to prevent mass extinction
Woods Senior Fellow Paul Ehrlich (Biology) explains why species loss matters to the future of humanity.
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