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| April 10, 2006 |
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Rainy years important for sustainability says senior fellow David Freyberg With the aquifers at capacity, creeks will run far into summer this year, providing an abundant food and water supply for wildlife and plants.
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| April 5, 2006 |
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CESP co-director Steve Schneider puts striking odds on the probability of major climate change disasters, but urges not to give up The best we can hope for is to prevent the worst - world-altering disasters like catastrophic climate change and a drastic rise in sea levels, say 10 leading climate scientists interviewed by The Associated Press.
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Human well-being purchased at the expense of the environment, says Millenium Ecosystem Assessment author and CESP senior fellow Harold Mooney But because those gains in well-being have come at increasing costs to the environment, the ecologists predict that the natural world will one day be incapable of providing the resources people need.
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| April 4, 2006 |
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A looser patchwork of international agreements that puts more emphasis on research and development is what is needed to address the escalating problem of climate change, says David Victor Senior fellows David Victor and Stephen Schneider provide comment on the impacts of the Kyoto protocol on climate change.
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| March 20, 2006 |
Aquaculture specialist Rosamond Naylor explores whether fish farms can sustainably meet the growing world demandCan fish farms nourish the world without despoiling the ocean? Stanford experts work to solve a feeding quandary.
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| March 17, 2006 |
New study co-authored by CESP senior fellow Gretchen Daily stresses need for land trusts to consider biodiversity and market forces when acquiring landWithout good data and an understanding of the laws of supply and demand, land trusts risk doing more harm than good for biodiversity, say the authors.
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| March 9, 2006 |
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We are basically at energy crisis levels, states PESD research fellow Mark Hayes Mark H. Hayes says in a February 2, 2006 article in The Mercury News that things will get marginally better next year, but we are not going to get back to the natural gas environment we had in the 1990s any time in the foreseeable future.
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Study confirms value of organic farmingCESP senior fellow Harold A. Mooney details the dangerous impacts nitrogen-rich chemical fertilizers can have on the atmosphere and important watersheds. He asserts "the use of organic versus chemical fertilizers can play a role in reducing these adverse effects."
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| March 8, 2006 |
Scientists recommend immediate action to mitigate climate-change effectsCESP fellows Michael D. Mastrandrea and Robert B. Dunbar participated in a Feb 21 panel, "Carbon, Climate and Consequences", to explain some of the current climate change research findings and to encourage people to support environment-friendly legislation and to apply conservation practices into their daily activities.
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| January 30, 2006 |
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For some tipping point already reached, says Schneider Small island nations such as Kiribati are already vulnerable to the devastating impacts of global warming as sea levels rise over the next century. "As far as they're concerned, it's tipped, but they have no economic clout in the world," says Stephen H. Schneider in January 29 Washington Post article.
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| January 10, 2006 |
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January 12th Environment Forum speaker Kerry Emanuel interviewed by New York Times on the connection between hurricanes and global warming Stephen H. Schneider quoted in article noting the strong impact Emanuel's paper in Nature, which included statistical evidence that hurricanes were indeed affected by global warming, had on the policy debate.
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| January 3, 2006 |
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David Victor quoted in International Herald Tribune on natural gas supply The recent dispute between Russia and Ukraine over gas prices - and the interruption of gas that transits the Ukraine en route to Europe - is rooted in a long history of energy geopolitics.
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| December 16, 2005 |
Root warns plants and animals are being affected by humans warming the planetAs part of a series about high-altitude research in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain News talked with Terry L. Root about her findings from a report released last May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that uses a computer-modeling study to link regional phenological changes directly to human-caused warming.
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| December 6, 2005 |
Washington Post reviews Steve Schneider's latest book, "The Patient From Hell"In "The Patient From Hell: How I Worked With My Doctors to Get the Best of Modern Medicine and How You Can, Too" (DaCapo Press, $25), Stephen H. Schneider, a renowned climatologist and a professor of biological science at Stanford, uses his own successful battle against a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma as a model for how patients can push back against the health care system's pressure to treat everyone as "the mythical average patient."
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| December 2, 2005 |
Dunbar comments on opening of research center on the Palmyra AtollThe $1.5 million research station will serve a research consortium, including Robert Dunbar, that will study climate change, coral reefs, and invasive species and other environmental threats.
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| November 16, 2005 |
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Human food supplies vulnerable to global warming, says Root. A study recently released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences warns parasitism against caterpillars will decrease due to global warming which threatens agricultural systems that depend on parasites to keep catepillar populations in check. "If you have parasites [disrupted] and the higher predators like birds moving out, then the unchecked increase in the caterpillar population could be quite devastating [to crops]," adds Terry L. Root.
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| November 8, 2005 |
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Conservation to keep natural gas prices in check, says Hayes ABC News reports dwindling inventories and cold winter forecasts are creating concerns about natural gas supply. PESD research fellow Mark H. Hayes finds reducing the use of natural gas will help to lower prices.
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| November 7, 2005 |
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Wall Street Journal article highlights which islands are safest from nature's dark side CESP post-doctoral scholar Michael D. Mastrandrea helped the authors design the index used to measure risk for 40 islands. The Dow Jones Island Index includes 12 factors that reflect a range of environmental risks that islands and island tourists face.
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| October 28, 2005 |
Thompson comments on precarious status of US fisheries and fishermenThe 1976 Magnuson Act, which provided governmental assistance to the fishing industry, supported the expansion of a fishing fleet built up beyond the capacity of the seas to provide that much fish, states Barton H. Thompson in a October 25 report in USA Today.
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| October 13, 2005 |
Danger Ahead: Schneider and Root say mounting evidence shows people are changing the planetYou've heard the alarms about global warming-rising sea levels, catastrophic weather patterns, species disappearing. Stanford scientists are working on a better way forward.
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| October 3, 2005 |
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California's entry in the fight against climate change significant, says Schneider "California is a big emitter, and it's probably one of the most charismatic political entities on the planet, with Hollywood and Arnold," says Steve Schneider, who serves on a state climate change advisory committee.
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Victor commends Japan's auto industry for its focus on promising hybrid technologies and commercializing them. In an article in the Wall Street Journal, David Victor states that while it's clear the hybrid vehicle could well be a platform for innovation in automobiles, it is not yet clear that fuel cells or solar panels are winners in the alternative-energy race.
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Victor says US has no credible emission policy at the federal level On the opening day of the International Carbon Dioxide Conference in Boulder, CO, David Victor expressed concern over the US's deep problem with credibility right now. Victor presented a paper titled "Climate Change: Designing en Effective Response" at the conference.
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| September 30, 2005 |
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We need to start planning for more extreme events, says Root New Orleans stands as a poignant example of the consequences of being unprepared. Terry Root cautions that with the rapidly changing climate a lot more extreme events are likely to occur.
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| September 12, 2005 |
Volatile natural gas prices to hit consumers, warns PESD fellow Mark HayesWith Hurricane Katrina sending natural gases well beyond historic highs, consumers and energy providers find themselves in unchartered territory. Natural gas bills may jump up to 40 percent in the coming weeks.
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