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Professor Mark Jacobson believes that financial incentives could help overcome political resistance to installing offshore wind turbines. | Rod Searcey

Feb 26, 2014

Offshore wind farms could tame hurricanes before they reach land, Stanford-led study says

Energy, Environment

On the left, a scanning tunneling microscope image captures the bright shape of the moly sulfide nanocluster on a graphite surface. The grey spots are carbon atoms. Together the moly sulfide and grap

Jan 27, 2014

Engineers teach old chemical new tricks to make cleaner fuels, fertilizers

Environment, Materials

Dec 6, 2013

Stanford researchers find merit in sub-Saharan Africans buying water from neighbors

Professor Reinhold Dauskardt

Nov 25, 2013

Study to assess how heat and moisture will affect the lifespan of utility-scale photovoltaic arrays

Energy, Environment

Hydrogen generating cluster of atoms

Oct 29, 2013

Work by Stanford chemical engineers could lead to greener fuels, fertilizers and petrochemicals

Energy, Environment, Materials

Stanford aeronautics graduate student Ved Chirayath photographs coral reefs using a 360-degree camera. | Dan Griffin

Oct 16, 2013

Drones open way to new world of coral research

Computation & Data, Environment

The tubular growth depicted here is a type of microbe that can produce electricity. Its wire-like tendrils are attached to a carbon filament. This image is taken with a scanning electron microscope.

Sep 16, 2013

Stanford scientists use ‘wired microbes’ to generate electricity from sewage

Environment, Materials

Stanford post-doctoral engineering scholar Amy Pickering installs a security box protecting a prototype of a water-purification device in Dhaka, Bangladesh. | Yoshika Crider

Aug 7, 2013

Stanford engineers debug Dhaka’s water

The disc-like synthetic nanoscavengers collected magnetically. | Image: Mingliang Zhang, Stanford School of Engineering

May 15, 2013

New Stanford Nanoscavengers Could Usher In Next Generation Water Purification

Environment, Health

Professor Shanhui Fan (center) with graduate students Aaswath Raman (left) and Eden Rephaeli (right). | Photo: Norbert von der Groeben

Mar 25, 2013

New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight

Energy, Environment, Materials

An autonomous underwater vehicle being deployed from the Rachel Carson research vessel. A system developed by Stanford researchers and others helps AUVs better explore the ocean floor. Photo: Sarah

Nov 26, 2012

Underwater robots from Stanford smart enough to explore treacherous deep-ocean terrain

Environment, Transportation & Robotics

Brock Woodson

Sep 27, 2012

Stanford researchers wire kelp forests off California coast

Post-doctoral fellow Svenja Lohner, left, and Professor Alfred Spormann. Their research, along with the work of others, could help solve one of the biggest challenges for large-scale renewable energy

Jul 24, 2012

Stanford scientists use microbes to make ‘clean’ methane

Energy, Environment

Satellite image of damage at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. Stanford researchers have provided the first detailed analysis of

Jul 18, 2012

Stanford researchers calculate global health impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster

Energy, Environment

The team started with 12 randomly selected energetic locations (in magenta) between Long Island, New York and a shallows about a hundred miles to the east of Cape Cod, and narrowed their recommendati

Mar 20, 2012

Engineers enlist weather model to optimize offshore wind plan

Energy, Environment

Feb 12, 2012

In sub-Saharan Africa, a shorter walk to water saves lives

Environment, Health

Jul 20, 2011

Re-inventing America’s urban water infrastructure

Environment, Technology & Society

Oct 11, 2009

Mechanical engineers work to securely sequester coal emissions

Energy, Environment

Aug 31, 2008

Engineers analyze the economics of California’s greenhouse gas goals

Energy, Environment

Apr 12, 2008

Sustainability initiative expands to encompass the environment we build

Jul 18, 2007

Icy stare: electrical engineers focus satellite eyes on precious polar ice

Mar 12, 2007

After defying cleanup for decades, toxins may yield to new approach

Nov 10, 2006

Wasted wood: Engineers seek a more sustainable building material

Jul 1, 2006

When water is scarce, urban rivers can help supply meet demand