Discoveries, ideas and people to watch
Five out of 10 global ecosystems once threatened by overfishing are
on the mend, according to a new study. A collaboration of scientists
from seven countries analyzed fish populations around the world and
found that the mass of fish removed from the ocean every year has
decreased in some fisheries.
Tagged: Environmental Research, fishing, oceans, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
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
Wild sheep on the Scottish island of Hirta have been diminishing in
size for over 20 years and now researchers have puzzled out why: It's
the heat. Like wool socks run through the dryer, the sheep have shrunk.
Tagged: Louis Bergeron, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain
why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially
resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers has built
upon his work to potentially improve a means of harvesting energy from
the sun.
Tagged: solar, Environment & Sustainability, Engineering
“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
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu returned to Stanford recently, urging a crowd of more than 700 at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to confront what he called "the energy challenge."
At any moment, the winds in high-altitude jet streams hold roughly 100
times more energy than all the electricity being consumed on Earth,
according to a study by Stanford environmental and climate scientists
Cristina Archer and Ken Caldeira.
Tagged: Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Engineering, Humanities & Sciences
Synthetic fertilizers have dramatically increased food production
worldwide. But the unintended costs to the environment and human health
have been substantial.
Tagged: Environmental Research, farming, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & 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