Resilience
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Civil and environmental engineer Khalid Osman seeks to change the world through infrastructure and create a future where all communities have access to safe and reliable services.
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Stanford researchers are working to help cities adapt to extreme weather and keep people and buildings cool during severe heat waves.
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Researchers presented new methods for tracking wildfire pollution and recovering bleached corals while former government officials and leaders from business and civil society called for urgent responses to food security, climate risks, and AI energy demand.
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Stephanie Fischer, a PhD student in Earth system science at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and a PhD minor in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University, researches how identity and culture can not only help people get involved in climate action but also buffer against harm.
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As part of the Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellowship, Marshall Burke and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi each conducted research intended to equip governments, institutions, and communities with evidence and approaches to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of a changing climate.
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Stanford researchers partnered with neighborhoods hit hard by flooding to understand their experiences and explore potential solutions. When given resources to plan infrastructure, residents consistently chose configurations that would benefit neighbors and shared spaces over maximizing protection for their own properties.
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How vulnerable are school meal programs to price volatility and regional shocks tied to climate change? Learn four key facts about school meals and climate, and ideas for making this increasingly important nutritional backstop more resilient.
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Analysis by Stanford researchers shows how strategic investment in undergrounding power lines could shave hours off some long lasting blackouts tied to extreme weather.
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Stanford researchers discovered that a nearly forgotten variety of black peas from the northwest Himalayas in India is genetically distinct from other peas and outperforms them.
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Often portrayed as lumber-hungry nuisances, North American beavers build dams that help freshwater ecosystems thrive. A new Stanford-led study uses high-resolution aerial imagery to map beaver dams and ponds, ultimately aiding managers in prioritizing areas for restoring wetlands and reintroducing beavers.
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Stanford marine biologist Steve Palumbi uses fundamental science to find practical solutions to pressing questions about ocean life and its future. His lab’s work on the effects of heat waves on marine life has implications for the environment, economies, health, and culture.
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New research shows that when predator species like California sheephead thrive, they keep hungry sea urchins and other grazers from devouring kelp forests struggling to recover from marine heat waves. Scientists estimate kelp forests’ annual exposure to once-rare heat will more than quintuple by 2100.
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Expanding Indigenous stewardship of public lands and understanding how one of the American West’s most drought-resilient forests will respond to climate change are among the goals of a collaborative project involving university researchers, tribal nations, and government agencies.
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For geophysicist Jenny Suckale, helping underserved communities navigate the extremes of climate change requires a new perspective on both.
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Negotiators met last week for a U.N. climate change conference marked by severe disagreement over how much wealthy nations owe developing nations to help decrease emissions and build climate resilience. Stanford experts discuss the conference’s outcome, how a potential Trump administration withdrawal from global climate talks might affect the U.S., and more.
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Stanford’s campus has become a living lab for testing innovative fire management techniques, from research on wildfire exposure risks to a cross-campus competition for students to develop wildfire-related solutions.
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Kabir Peay wants to leverage the relationship between plants and the beneficial fungi that colonize their roots to help ecosystems weather climate change.
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Twelve students from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Naval Postgraduate School led research on disaster response, food and water security, and coastal resilience.
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New guidelines share opportunities for governments to leverage fisheries and aquaculture for climate action – and how some countries are already doing so.
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Steve Davis has taken an unconventional path from philosophy to Earth system science and research showing how decisions related to food, energy, and trade affect climate outcomes.
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A Stanford fraternity is restoring native California coastal habitats and redefining what it means to be part of Greek life, one plant at a time.
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Kristen Davis seeks to understand how physical processes in the ocean shape coastal ecosystems and support climate resilience.
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E-IPER PhD student Hannah Melville-Rea describes her research and why she believes that a local approach can be the most effective for addressing a global problem.
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Residents of the wildfire-choked San Joaquin Valley desperately want something done about their air quality – but they want researchers to approach the work in a new way.
