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Wildfire smoke poses an existential threat to outdoor theaters in the Bay Area and beyond

Using government satellite images instead of air quality data, Marshall Burke projected an increase in smoky days in coming years. “In the future, it’s going to get worse than 2020,” he says. “We should expect that.”

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At least 1,500 Britons killed by climate change-fuelled heat this century

Research conducted by Noah Diffenbaugh and Frances Davenport found that flood damage in the U.S. totaled $75 billion over the past three decades.

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How little nudges can help win the fight against climate change

Research led by Salvatore Pascale shows human-caused climate change made Cape Town's worst drought on record five to six times more likely. The city's water crisis holds lessons on how we can solve environmental problems by encouraging virtuous habits.

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Bloomberg 'Balance of Power'

"This is the symptom of a larger issue, which is deregulation," said Stanford professor Sally Benson in an interview about Texas' power crisis. "In a world where the climate is changing quickly – and how, when and where people use energy is changing quickly – it's not clear that the market can keep up."

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What California needs to do to avoid a Texas-style electricity crisis

Texas' power woes should be yet another reminder that California needs to invest more in preparing for disaster risk, said Chris Field, director of Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

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Wildfire smoke could be the main way Californians experience climate change

“In 2020, we saw roughly 60 days with wildfire smoke that was in the air that we breathed, up from 10 to 15 days just a decade ago,” said Stanford environmental economist Marshall Burke. 

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This Stanford student is helping the world better see and understand climate change

Working with NASA, National Geographic and Google, Liza Goldberg '24  is helping  to launch Cloud to Classroom – a better way to visualize and therefore better teach climate change, like showing the spread of droughts and wildfires.

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Reparations for slavery could have reduced US Covid-19 transmission and deaths

A group of researchers including Jamie Jones examined how reparation payments made before the pandemic would have affected Louisiana, a state that remains segregated in parts, and found that the payments could have reduced coronavirus transmission in the state by 31% to 68%.

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Anti-racist epidemiology

"Social and environmental factors like mobility, segregation, and the nature of the built environment help determine rates of infection," said James Jones, associate professor of Earth system science. 

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Outer space is a treasure chest of gemstones

“We can form all sorts of gemstones potentially in space, as long as you have the right chemistry in the right temperature and conditions,” said Stanford Earth professor Wendy Mao.

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Wildfire smoke makes up half of small particle pollution in Western US

"Most people do not see sea-level rise. Most people do not ever see hurricanes. Many, many people will see wildfire smoke from climate change," said Stanford environmental economist Marshall Burke. 

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Wildfire smoke now causes up to half the fine-particle pollution in Western U.S.

“We know smoke is bad for health. But we really didn’t have a comprehensive national picture for how much wildfires are contributing to poor air quality,” said Marshall Burke.

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Wildfire smoke to blame for up to half of soot pollution in parts of western US

Wildfire smoke has resulted in as much as half of the soot pollution in parts of the western U.S., according to a study led by Stanford environmental economist Marshall Burke.

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US flood damage rose 30 percent in 30 years, a sign of warming

“This shows that there is real economic value in avoiding higher levels of global warming,” said Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh. “That’s not a political statement. That’s a factual statement about costs."

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Climate change drove $75 billion in rainfall damage over the past 30 years

Research by Frances Davenport, Noah Diffenbaugh  and Marshall Burke shows that over the past three decades, the U.S. has had nearly $75 billion in damage from floods fueled by the climate crisis. 

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Climate change blamed for a third of U.S. flood losses in past 3 decades

“The more global warming we get, the more we can expect these damages to increase – and reductions (in emissions) will have value in terms of avoided costs,” said climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh.

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