Science and insights for people who care about Earth, its resources and its environment
November 2015
Earth Matters curates research from across Stanford on topics including energy, natural hazards, food, freshwater resources, climate change, and others. This monthly alert notifies readers of the latest material available.
A Stanford-led team has developed a method to estimate crop yields using satellites that can measure solar-induced fluorescence, a light emitted by growing plants. The advance will help scientists study how crops respond to climate change.
Geochemists have found evidence that life likely existed on Earth at least 4.1 billion years ago — 300 million years earlier than previous research suggested.
In a world transformed by climate change and human activity, conserving biodiversity and protecting species will require an interdisciplinary combination of ecological and social research methods.
A new study coauthored by Noah Diffenbaugh finds that as greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures continue to rise, mountain snowmelt will decrease.
