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In her final commencement, dean tells graduates to “get engaged and stay engaged”

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Pamela Matson in cap and gown

Dean Pamela Matson awarded honorary degree from Princeton

Princeton University News
Pamela Matson in cap and gown at podium

Dean Pamela Matson receives honorary degree from McGill University

McGill University
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Q&A with Stanford experts on the president’s Paris climate agreement decision

Stanford News Service
Climate Change, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
Clouds and lightning in Yellowstone

Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent

Columbia Engineering
Climate Change, Dynamic Earth
bacteria drawings

Shunned by microbes, organic carbon can resist breakdown in underground environments

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Climate Change, Evolution of Earth and Life
Oroville Dam

Season of the Switch

San Francisco Magazine

Degrees

Department of Earth System Science
Windmill farm

Forget about climate change

Scientific American
sun shines on U.S. grasslands

Stanford study shows U.S. grasslands affected more by atmospheric dryness than precipitation

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Climate Change, Food and Agriculture
Ellen Ward portrait

Stanford Earth’s Ellen Ward Receives AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Graphic of satellite taking images of Earth from space

Study tracks “memory” of soil moisture

MIT News
Climate Change, Dynamic Earth, Food and Agriculture
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Methane from food production could be wildcard in combating climate change

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Climate Change, Food and Agriculture

Syrian crisis altered region’s land and water resources, Stanford study finds

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Food and Agriculture, Fresh Water Resources
Ray Kemble holds two samples of well water from his neighborhood in Dimock, PA.

EPA's late changes to fracking study downplay risk of drinking water pollution

Marketplace
Steven Gorelick and AAAS logo

Steven Gorelick one of three Stanford AAAS 2016 fellows

Stanford Medicine
abandoned natural gas well

Study of abandoned oil and gas wells reveals new ways of identifying and fixing the worst methane emitters

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Climate Change, Energy

ESS at AGU Fall 2016 Meeting

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
young girl at Sentebale health-care center

Stanford researchers find 15 million children in high-mortality hotspots in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stanford Health Policy
Human Dimensions and Sustainability

111 day trek to found a field school

Indie Alaska

The world’s poorest most at risk from drought, conflict

Climate Central

Central Asia’s 'de-greening'

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Climate Change, Dynamic Earth

How the western water wars may end

The Christian Science Monitor
grasslands

Future climate change field test doesn't make Earth greener

Associated Press
Climate Change, Food and Agriculture

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