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The latest awards enable development and implementation of cross-disciplinary projects tackling real-world sustainability challenges in food and agriculture, industry, water, electricity, and biology.

Centuries ago, Pliny the Elder marveled at the transformation of volcanic ash. Today, researchers are reinventing cement by harnessing volcanic chemistry to create more sustainable building materials.

The world’s deadliest animal is migrating to more hospitable climes as the planet warms. Erin Mordecai and her colleagues are trying to figure out where on Earth the little buggers are about to strike.

The Sustainability Accelerator at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability will support three scholars exploring creative and commercially viable solutions to challenges in food, wind energy, and cooling systems.

An epidemiologist is on a mission to reduce pollution where past efforts have failed—and end an environmental health nightmare.

The latest awards from Stanford’s Sustainability Accelerator support wide-ranging efforts to help communities and nature withstand climate-related extreme events and advance the measurement of planetary systems.

Researchers found that up to 13 million acres of California’s Central Valley may be suitable for recharging groundwater. The largest portion of this area occurs on agricultural land, with most corresponding to orchards, field crops, and vineyards.

Scientists estimate that reducing harmful chemical emissions could cut cancer risks from smoke exposure by over 50%.

During a recent Sustainability Accelerator event, venture capitalists urged researchers working to scale greenhouse gas removal technologies to focus on cost and seek common ground with a wide range of prospective partners. 

Stanford’s Sustainability Accelerator convened more than 300 researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, and alumni on campus to learn about greenhouse gas removal and how 18 teams are seeking to enable it on a large scale. Explore highlights from the event.

Entrepreneurs and investors agreed that collaboration will be crucial for enabling the greenhouse gas removal industry to scale up “faster than basically any industry on Earth.”

Researchers presented their work on greenhouse gas removal, learned from experts about scalability and finance, and connected with potential investors and partners.

Ambitious Greenhouse Gas Removal projects from Stanford’s Sustainability Accelerator are underway. Here’s a look at four innovative ideas that aim to clean our atmosphere.

Dozens of faculty members at Stanford are working to transform the way the world grows, distributes, and consumes food, with research and scholarship spanning topics including sustainable food systems, food security, health equity, culture, and diet.

The new process uses heat to transform common minerals into materials that permanently sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide.

As the world works to meet net-zero carbon goals, a new study offers a critical reminder: precision matters. The researchers suggest refining how we assess a natural carbon storage strategy to ensure the technology lives up to its potential as a climate change solution.

Current methods to assess the carbon storage potential of biochar may significantly undervalue environmental benefits, Stanford researchers say.

Stanford biologist Kabir Peay wants to leverage the relationship between plants and the fungi that colonize their roots to help ecosystems weather climate change.

The Sustainability Accelerator’s new postdoctoral fellowship program kicks off fall quarter with four entrepreneurial fellows who will pursue individual research on greenhouse gas removal.