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National Mall, Washington, D.C.

Former Energy Department officials urge continued support for clean energy

Jun 8, 2017 | Precourt Institute

A coal-fired power plant in New York.

What really happened to coal?

Jun 7, 2017 | Washington Post

The TomKat Center presents Women Entrepreneurs in Sustainability 2017 at Huang Engineering Center. (L-R) Stacey Bent, Director of TomKat Center; Christine Su, PastureMap; Ugwem Eneyo, Solstice; Hedi Razavi, Keewi

Helping students make sustainable energy ideas a reality

Jun 6, 2017 | Stanford Report

Venice, La., with at least two to 3 feet of water two weeks after Hurricane Katrina.

University presidents affirm commitment to progress on climate change

Jun 5, 2017 | Stanford News

Left to right: Opus 12 founders Kendra Kuhl, Nicholas Flanders and Etosha Cave.

Stanford alumni aim to turn waste carbon into usable chemicals

Jun 4, 2017 | TomKat Center

Arctic Ocean, north of western Russia.

Q&A: The president’s Paris climate agreement decision

Jun 1, 2017 | Stanford Report

Solar concentrator power plant in California's Mojave Desert.

Changing market is molding 'green' power

May 30, 2017 | Desert Sun

Batman’s carbon footprint is enormous, says Stanford's Miles Traer.

Which of your favorite superheroes Is destroying the Earth?

May 24, 2017 | Smithsonian

Alicia Seiger: Making the most of her education and the environment

May 22, 2017 | Graduate School of Business

Colorized transmission electron microscopy of ceria ultrathin film reveals that individual atoms (shown as dots) shift under intense pressure.

Stanford scientists use nanotechnology to boost the performance of a key industrial catalyst

May 18, 2017

Hawaii biomass gasification facility with sugar mill in background, Paia, Maui, Hawaii.

Assuming easy carbon removal is a high-stakes gamble

May 18, 2017 | Stanford Earth

Participants in Sustainable Stanford's My Cardinal Green program.

Stanford IT launches My Cardinal Green portal

May 18, 2017 | Stanford IT

Stanford Geophysics Professor Mark Zoback (left), director of the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative, moderates a discussion with Philip Mshelbila, general manager of gas and director of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd.

Natural Gas Initiative targets energy poverty

May 12, 2017

Denver skyline

The business case for the Paris climate accord

May 9, 2017 | New York Times

Stanford student Emma Fisher with Eric Montell, executive director of Stanford Dining.

Sustainable Stanford Award winners honored

May 4, 2017 | Stanford Report

Scientists have developed a new molybdenum-coated catalyst that prevents an unwanted back reaction in certain chemical systems that split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

Researchers develop a new catalyst for water splitting

May 3, 2017 | SLAC News Center

An ordinary construction brick, left, and an experimental brick made of a protein/lunar regolith mixture.

Energy-saving technique could help turn Martian rocks into concrete

May 2, 2017 | Stanford Engineering

Graph of billion-dollar disaster events in the U.S. between 1980 and 2016.

Connecting climate resilience to the bottom line

May 1, 2017 | Stanford Social Innovation Review

Research field site in the floodplains in the upper Colorado River Basin where soil samples were taken.

Organic carbon can resist breakdown underground

May 1, 2017 | Stanford Report

Power plant in India.

World's hottest market: Air conditioners for India

May 1, 2017 | Forbes

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