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Selected projects include initiatives to detect microplastics, offer timely insights on wildfire smoke toxicity, and reduce heat-related deaths in low-income settlements.
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Scientists estimate that tweaking some burn conditions could cut cancer risks from smoke exposure by over 50%.
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Researchers presented their work on greenhouse gas removal, learned from experts about scalability and finance, and connected with potential investors and partners.
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The ambitious Greenhouse Gas Removal project is underway. Here’s a look at four innovative ideas that aim to clean our atmosphere.
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Dozens of faculty members at Stanford are working to transform the way the world grows, distributes, and consumes food, with research and scholarship spanning topics including sustainable food systems, food security, health equity, culture, and diet.
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The new process uses heat to transform common minerals into materials that permanently sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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Current methods to assess the carbon storage potential of biochar may significantly undervalue environmental benefits, Stanford researchers say.
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Stanford biologist Kabir Peay wants to leverage the relationship between plants and the fungi that colonize their roots to help ecosystems weather climate change.
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The Sustainability Accelerator’s new postdoctoral fellowship program kicks off fall quarter with four entrepreneurial fellows who will pursue individual research on greenhouse gas removal.
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Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a new thermochemical reactor that can generate the immense heat needed for industrial processes using electricity instead of fossil fuels.
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The Sustainability Accelerator in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability will support work in new areas including energy, climate adaptation, industry, and more.
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The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability will establish new research initiatives under topics including climate, water, energy, food, nature, and cities.
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A message from school leadership announcing solutions-oriented and scale-focused research funding opportunities to address pressing sustainability challenges.
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What happens when Stanford tackles sustainability.
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Wildfire risk is an ever-present concern in the American West. A legal scholar and wildfire policy expert talks about how a recent Sustainability Accelerator grant helped a multidisciplinary team advance policy change in California.
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The center’s move from the Precourt Institute for Energy will enable TomKat-funded student projects to compete for space and funding in the Accelerator, while the Accelerator will benefit from TomKat’s experience empowering students, researchers, and entrepreneurs to develop and launch solutions to energy and sustainability problems.
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In much of California, groundwater levels are in bad shape. Too much water going out, not enough coming in has led to a steady decline in water tables. State and local water agencies are looking for new ways to recharge groundwater stores.
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Charlotte Pera, a veteran of major climate-focused organizations, returns to Stanford in July to co-lead the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability’s Accelerator.
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Interdisciplinary team has developed a groundbreaking optical sensor that measures DNA and other key molecules in seawater using light, potentially revolutionizing the study of biodiversity in the enigmatic depths below the ocean’s surface.
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The first group of scholars supported under the new Sustainability Accelerator Fellowship program will focus on the challenge of removing billions of tons of greenhouse gases annually from Earth’s atmosphere by the middle of this century.
