Takeoff in 3, 2, 1 The astronaut’s voice excites me as I float face down in a Stanford swimming pool. My snorkel pokes above the water while a flotation belt strapped around my waist keeps me suspended effortlessly near the surface. Inside the diving mask covering my eyes, I watch as the land – not […]
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Quinn Mitsuko Parker didn’t start out studying gender— at least not officially. For over two and a half years, she collaborated with coastal communities in southeast Madagascar to identify the challenges, and pathways, to achieving sustainable livelihoods. Along the way, she began to see gender as a central piece of the puzzle, revealing who is most impacted by climate change, and why.
Stanford’s Interdisciplinary Momentum on Display at Ph.D. Conference Read More »
After scrolling past yet another alarming headline about climate change, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, and it’s just as easy to move on. For climate scientists, though, there is nowhere to move on to. They carry alarming feelings daily, confronting research that forecasts extreme weather, displacement, and ecological loss. So, how do the world’s twenty-thousand climate scientists continue their
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At dinner tables and parties, conversations about gender often circle back to some version of the same refrain: men and women are just “naturally better” at different things—just look at hunter-gatherers. But a recent study revealing that women were hunters upended this narrative, seemingly rewriting history. Or did it? By diving deeper into this revelation, we begin
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Stanford’s Adam Boies asks how carbon might be sequestered in the built environment, broadening the scope, scale, and audience of engineering puzzles.
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Researchers discover surprising evidence of human influence on fish ecosystems centuries before historical records suggest.
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SAN MATEO — According to the United States Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, the number of honeybees declined by 60 percent since 1947. Over the last decade, some environmental activists and scientists pointed to the negative effects of neonicotinoid pesticides as potential reasons for the declines in honeybee colonies. But some members of the San Mateo beekeeper’s guild are citing other explanations
Are pesticides the reason honeybees are in trouble? Read More »
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin. Now, it is the most commonly used drug in overdoses: about 30 percent of overdoses in 2016 involved fentanyl. In 2016, the rate of overdoses involving fentanyl was 12 times larger than it was in 2013.
A drug 50 times deadlier than heroin finds its way to California Read More »
Once home to millions of migrating monarch butterflies, the coast of California has recently seen significant drops in monarch butterfly populations.
Disappearing act: California’s monarch butterflies Read More »
PALO ALTO — Faced with a lack of guidance from their doctors and the possibility that cannabidiol could help their sick children, parents are taking their children’s health into their own hands.
Lacking guidance from doctors, parents lead the charge in treating children with CBD Read More »
PALO ALTO — During large scale crises, Palo Alto would be hard-pressed if all its residents solely relied on the government’s first responders. If a major disaster strikes, officials say the city will also turn to a network of trained volunteers.
BAY AREA — Proposition 68 in the coming Tuesday’s primary elections in California is seeking to bolster projects that tackle water and natural resource conservation, improve park access and increase resilience to climate change. If passed, $4 billion in bonds will be allocated statewide for improvement of parks, projects on environmental protection and restoration, water infrastructure and flood protection.
Prop 68 to decide funding for water, parks and climate change in California Read More »
