Data centers, extreme weather, and a lack of federal climate regulation could put major strains on the U.S. power grid. Alice Hill, a former White House senior director for resilience policy, discusses what it will take to protect energy systems in a warming world and why investing before disaster strikes always beats recovering after.

A Stanford report and preprint study reveals that uncertainty about risk and liability is stopping reforestation carbon credits from scaling up. Its findings point to possible solutions, such as clear risk allocation frameworks, expanded insurance options, and enhanced transparency.

Universities like Stanford have a transparency gap on their AI electricity use and greenhouse gas emissions data that can easily be fixed, Stanford Master of Liberal Arts candidate Utsav Gupta writes in The Stanford Daily.