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Half of California could be occupied by new bird communities by 2070, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford and partner institutions
Tagged: California, climate change, Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
“Geoengineering” experiments proposed to reduce global warming by
blocking sunlight with atmosphere-injected particles may cool the world
but still leave carbon dioxide levels dangerously high, Stanford
scientists say.
Tagged: climate change, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
Climate change threatens hundreds of thousands of species, including
the colorful San Francisco Bay checkerspot butterfly, with extinction.
Now Stanford scientists are proposing when and how to save these vulnerable species by moving them to suitable new habitats.
Tagged: climate change, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
Experts on marine science, policy and law came together at the Stanford Law School for a symposium on managing ocean ecosystems in an uncertain future of climate change.
Tagged: climate change, Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Law
Without decisive action, global warming in the 21st century is likely
to accelerate at a much faster pace and cause more environmental damage
than predicted, according to a leading member of the Nobel
Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Tagged: climate change, Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford has broadened
and accelerated access to its technology-patent rights and added more
research activities to its portfolio under a revised agreement with its
sponsors—ExxonMobil, GE, Schlumberger and Toyota.
Tagged: climate change, Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
Rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously alter crop yields in the
tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without
adaptation, leave half of the world's population facing serious food
shortages, according to a study published in the Jan. 9 edition of the
journal Science.
Tagged: climate change, farming, food, International Initiative, poverty, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues, Earth Sciences
The reforestation of agricultural lands in the Americas, abandoned as
the population collapsed due to pandemics, pulled so much carbon out of the atmosphere
that it helped trigger a period of global cooling between 1500 to 1750.
Tagged: climate change, Environment & Sustainability, Earth Sciences
Global warming will likely put enormous strain on California's water
supply and energy systems and have a devastating impact on certain
crops, say Stanford researchers.
Tagged: California, climate change, farming, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
Frogs and salamanders, those amphibious bellwethers of environmental
danger, are being killed in Yellowstone National Park. The predator,
Stanford researchers say, is global warming.
Tagged: climate change, Yellowstone, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences