The first step in improved land management is to halt practices that require carbon-removal in the first place. "Dealing with tropical deforestation is huge, huge, huge," says Katharine Mach of Stanford Earth.

Many economists expect carbon emissions to drop in the next few decades. But maybe they won’t. Are we on the worst-case scenario for climate change? “We’re actually a lot closer than we should be," says Stanford Earth's Rob Jackson.

For the first time in four years U.S. carbon emissions increased, mostly because a booming economy used more energy resources, even with a shift toward renewable energy and natural gas. Stanford Earth's Rob Jackson discusses whether a booming economy and rising emissions can decouple.

“We have lost momentum. There’s no question,” Rob Jackson, a Stanford University professor who studies emissions trends, said of both U.S. and global efforts to steer the world toward a more sustainable future.

A series of reports from international bodies, including one led by Stanford Earth's Rob Jackson, found in late 2018 that nations around the world have reversed course in reducing emissions.

"From 2014 through 2016, we saw emissions that were flat while the global economy grew," says Stanford Earth climate scientist Rob Jackson. "Now we're back to a much faster rate of increase."

Earth System Science PhD student Katerina Gonzales and colleagues found creative ways to discuss the warming of atmospheric rivers, or "sky long water things," for AGU's Up-Goer Five Challenge.

Recent droughts across the West have squeezed hydroelectric facilities and hampered efforts to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, according to a new study from Stanford Earth's Noah Diffenbaugh and Julio Herrera-Estrada.

One of the main ways California is experiencing the effects of climate change is through severe droughts. Now new research from Stanford Earth suggests those droughts are also contributing to climate change.

“Reality is complex. In a changing climate, nothing is being affected all by itself,” says Stanford Earth's Katharine Mach, a co-author of the fourth National Climate Assessment released in November.

Research from Noah Diffenbaugh and Julio Herrera-Estrada finds drought-driven emissions accounted for around 10 percent of CO₂ output from the power sector in several Western states between 2001 and 2015.

Droughts do more than just dry up our lawns, orchards, pastures and ski slopes. A Stanford study reveals a hidden impact of low water: worse air pollution, as we shift from hydropower to fossil fuels.

Droughts have long been known to place pressure on agriculture and water supplies, but they can also lead to increased carbon dioxide emissions, according to a study from Stanford Earth scientists.

Low river flows in the western U.S. drastically hampered the amount of carbon-free electricity that could be produced by the thousands of hydroelectric power plants across the West, a study from Stanford Earth shows.

Scientists have long wondered why the planet's first complex organisms emerged in the cold, dark depths of the ocean, where food and sun are in short supply. Stanford Earth's Erik Sperling and Tom Boag have an answer.

Stanford Earth's Tom Boag and Erik Sperling may have uncovered an important piece of the Ediacaran-Cambrian puzzle which could help piece together the missing links of the evolution of all life on Earth.