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Hélène Benveniste investigates how climate change is reshaping global migration patterns, what the future holds, and how countries can work together for solutions.

Madalina Vlasceanu studies the cognitive, behavioral, and societal barriers to addressing climate change – and how to overcome them. 

The inaugural Stanford Sustainability Summit, S3, convened global climate innovators to forge new connections.

Residents of the wildfire-choked San Joaquin Valley desperately want something done about their air quality – but they want researchers to approach the work in a new way.

Scholars and community leaders gathered at an environmental justice conference to discuss the importance of community-driven research, intersectional frameworks, and institutional legitimacy.

Experts discuss how insights from social science research can help U.S. climate policies overcome polarization and spur lasting change in consumer behavior.

Water is our most precious resource and we are facing a whole series of crises.

As the newest addition to Doerr’s programs, the department of environmental social sciences will explore applications of social sciences like political science and psychology to environmentalism, according to the department’s faculty. 

The new department within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability incorporates the human element into interdisciplinary efforts to tackle humanity’s greatest sustainability challenges.

Hunt Allcott explores how new environmental solutions can be made as effective, sustainable, and equitable as possible.

 Wildfire smoke has slowed or reversed progress on healthy air in 35 states, erasing a quarter of recent air quality gains in just six years.

With science fiction as inspiration, faculty encouraged students in the course 'Imagining Adaptive Societies' to imagine a future where people thrive in a sustainable and equitable world.

A new AI-driven analysis finds the most popular U.S. history textbooks used in California and Texas commonly misrepresent the scientific consensus around climate change. 

More than 50 years after the first Earth Day, Stanford experts discuss the experiences that inspire people to learn and care about the environment and take action.

With divided and often stalled government, what does this mean for environmental protections in the U.S. and climate change measures generally?

A self-declared optimist, Ardoin brings a sense of hope that outshines the climate despair dominating much of today’s environmental news.