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The massive reactors churning industrial chemicals today are fired by fossil fuels. A new approach that has received a Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Accelerator grant would use electromagnetic induction to heat with clean, renewable electricity.
Stanford-led research shows methane emissions from a large share of U.S. oil and gas facilities are three times higher on average than the level predicted by official government estimates.
Researchers have found that one-third of the organic carbon leached from peatland soils into canal waters in Southeast Asia gets broken down and released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
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“Mother Earth is begging us to restore the atmosphere, the oceans, and our biodiversity. For our own sake. For the sake of our children and grandchildren.”
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For Dimitri Saad, understanding the path to net-zero requires engaging not only with data, but also with the communities involved.
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The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment joins an effort to inform implementation of federal climate policies.
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At a recent Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Dean’s Lecture Series event, the Planet Labs CEO discussed how the marriage of satellite imagery and artificial intelligence creates new opportunities to track renewable energy projects, wildfire damage, deforestation, coral reef systems, and more.
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