Researchers hypothesize outcomes of the pandemic’s unprecedented socioeconomic disruption, and outline research priorities for advancing our understanding of humans’ impact on the environment.

Stanford Earth’s summer internships have been redesigned from in-person, one-on-one mentorships to an online lecture series due to COVID-19 restrictions — and more local high school students are being exposed to research opportunities in the environmental sciences than ever before.

Methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas system likely exceed 2% of production. Airplane-based remote sensing tools could detect as much as 50% or more of emissions from oil and gas production and midstream by focusing on “super-emitting” point sources.

New research finds that air pollution from sources in the U.S. leads to 100,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. While about half of all air pollution-related deaths from fine particulate matter result from burning fossil fuels, the remaining are largely from animal agriculture, dust from construction and roads, and burning wood for heating and cooking.