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As oceans warm and ecosystems shift, Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station is helping detect trouble early – and prevent collapse before it starts.
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Living Laboratory for Sustainability, offered in collaboration with the Doerr School of Sustainability, immerses students in the university’s real-world energy, water, waste, land management, and food systems.
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The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability has awarded Discovery Grants totaling more than $1.5 million to 11 projects. The Discovery Grant program supports creative research aimed at advancing understanding of our planet, life and society, and engineered systems.
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Lobell, an expert in agricultural ecology, will serve a three-year term as chair of the Department of Earth System Science starting Sept 1.
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Led by E’jaaz Mason, a lecturer in Earth systems, EARTHSYS 285: Community-Engaged Multimedia Environmental Communication guides students in community-engaged filmmaking on environmental issues affecting Bay Area communities.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Woods Institute for the Environment. We talk with Anushka Vijay, a senior who built both academic knowledge and practical experience through the Environmental and Policy Internship (EPIC) program.
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Investing in sustainable economic development is now “just investing,” and that’s good news, participants in Stanford roundtable in Southeast Asia concur.
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From July to September 2025, fourth-year Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD student Mateus Gheorghe de Castro Ribeiro participated in a hybrid internship at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), a workforce development program run by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Dozens of teams from across North and South America competed at Stanford to become finalists in the inaugural Global Sustainability Challenge. Four Stanford teams are headed to the final event in Munich in April.
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Emmanuel Codillo recreates geologic processes hundreds of miles beneath Earth’s surface to understand the inner workings of planets, shedding light on magma generation and volcanic activity, earthquakes, and critical mineral deposits.
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For more than a decade, the TomKat Center has connected Stanford students with paid summer internships at sustainability startups around the Bay Area and beyond.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Woods Institute for the Environment. Izabella Smolnicka-Dos Santos integrated academic insight with real-world applications as a Forum for Undergraduate Environmental Leadership (FUEL) fellow focused on sustainability of agriculture and dairy in California.
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Stanford Ecopreneurship, a collaboration between the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford Graduate School of Business, shares highlights from courses, fellowships, and other programs in its 2025 annual report.
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The Global Sustainability Challenge is mobilizing college students worldwide to develop sustainability solutions for their communities. Stanford University will host the Americas finals Feb. 13, with 23 finalist teams from North and South America competing for six spots at the Global Finale in Munich in April.
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Team BioGangs designed a biodigester that uses invasive water hyacinth plants to generate biogas for low-income communities in Indonesia. In January, the group competed in the 2026 Global Sustainability Challenge’s regional finals for Pacific Asia and Australasia.
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A Stanford team has designed a dual-phase fuel cell to help people generate energy in the aftermath of a flood. On Feb. 13, the group will compete in the 2026 Global Sustainability Challenge’s regional finals for the Americas.
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A team of students from Nigeria, Peru, and India has designed a system that combines solar power and a biomass generator to help small-scale farmers efficiently dry crops such as cocoa and coffee. On Feb. 13-15, the group will compete in the 2026 Global Sustainability Challenge’s regional finals for Europe and Africa.
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The 2026 Stanford Global and Planetary Health Research Convening brought scholars together to discuss solutions and strategies to address health challenges and build resilience.
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For Earth Systems master’s student Tom Ramsay, an internship focused on assessing the natural capital of wetlands in Uruguay inspired new interests and career ambitions.
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Grants support research on global sustainability challenges, with a focus on how U.S. policy shifts affect environmental and human outcomes. Funded projects examine climate and clean-energy policy impacts on communities, ecosystems, and public trust, generating insights to build more resilient and equitable environmental outcomes.
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Carlos Diaz-Marin and his colleagues are engineering inexpensive materials called hydrogels to collect water from the air, capture carbon from the atmosphere, and massively improve heating efficiency, among other sustainability challenges.
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Part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the center aims to ensure that sustainability efforts enhance human dignity and ecological resilience.
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Budgets are tight, political winds have shifted, and competition is fierce. But environment and sustainability sector employment experts say there's reason for optimism—if you know where to look, and how to prepare.
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An ambitious initiative is tackling the pervasive issue of lead contamination, which exerts a heavy toll on global health. Researchers aim to identify major sources of lead exposure and develop affordable detection methods in communities worldwide.
