Students answer questions - including yours - about sustainable living.

Tagged: conservation, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences

As energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions continually rise in the United States, unconventional natural gas sources coupled with advances in carbon sequestration may be the solution, according to Stanford University scientists.

Tagged: conservation, Environment & Sustainability, Earth Sciences

Air travel is projected to triple in the next 30 years. Stanford researchers are working to reduce the environmental impact of this increase by finding innovative ways to reduce aviation energy requirements and noise pollution.

Tagged: aviation, conservation, Environment & Sustainability, Engineering

The Woods Institute for the Environment has awarded four new Environmental Venture Projects (EVP) grants for interdisciplinary research aimed at finding practical solutions promoting global sustainability. Four Stanford University faculty teams will receive a total of $791,692 over the next two years to tackle environmental challenges, from the desert grasslands of Australia to the mountain meadows of California.

Tagged: conservation, Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability

A hydrogen-rich compound discovered by Stanford researchers is packed with promise of helping overcome one of the biggest hurdles to using hydrogen for fuel.

Tagged: conservation, hydrogen, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences

Stanford ecologists came up with an innovative plan to restore Hawaii's great forests and also benefit landowners. The approach is being used as a model for resource decisions in other countries.

Tagged: conservation, Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Earth Sciences

Fish farming now supplies, by some estimates, 30 percent of the fish consumed by humans. However, results from a new Stanford computer simulation indicate that pollution from fish farms travels farther, and in higher concentrations, than had been assumed.

Tagged: conservation, fish, food, Environment & Sustainability, Engineering

A remote area of southwest India provides evidence that farming can support species conservation, according to a new study.

Tagged: conservation, farming, India, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues, Humanities & Sciences

VIDEO: "When people ask how many people can the world support, one of the first issues is, living how? Somewhere between 2 and 3 billion people in the world live on less than $2 a day, many of them on less than $1.25 a day. One of the things we need to do is get people talking about how life should be lived. Are we going to be forced to have more resource wars?" Professor Paul Ehrlich discusses these and other important issues in recent interview with Stanford Report.

Tagged: conservation, evolution, population, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues, Humanities & Sciences

A recent CNN video profiles Stanford professors, Sarah Billington and Craig Griddle, who are working to create a non-petroleum artificial wood.

Tagged: conservation, Environment & Sustainability, Engineering