Environment and Climate Change
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How to stop turmeric from killing people
The King Center's initiative on lead was featured in The Economist for their research which led to a complete elimination of lead-contaminated turmeric in Bangladesh.
November 02, 2023
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What do EV batteries have to do with health?
The center's initiative on reducing lead exposure combined epidemiology and management to confront a growing threat from lead-acid batteries in electric vehicles.
October 12, 2023
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King Center supports undergraduate student research in infectious disease lab
Current and former students share their experience studying mosquito-borne viruses in the lab of Professor A. Desiree LaBeaud.
September 25, 2023
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'Getting a handle' on a potent climate threat
Faculty Affiliate Alison Hoyt is working in a multidiscplinary team of researchers across Stanford to measure emissions of a potent greenhouse gas in extreme conditions.
September 14, 2023
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They got the lead out of turmeric!
Affiliated researcher Jenna Forsyth and Faculty Affiliate Stephen Luby worked with the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority to eliminate lead-contaminated turmeric in the country.
September 13, 2023
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Stanford research exposes toxic lead used to enhance color of turmeric
A King Center-supported initiative successfully reduced lead adulteration in turmeric in Bangladesh from 47% to 0% in two years.
September 13, 2023
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Indian groundwater depletion rates could triple in coming decades as climate warms
A study co-authored by Faculty Affiliate David Lobell shows that the intensifying withdrawal of groundwater for irrigation by farmers in India threatens food and water security.
September 01, 2023
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Benefits of electric stoves on health and environment in Ecuador
Faculty Affiliate Marshall Burke and former Postdoctoral Fellow Brandon de la Cuesta studied the impacts of a program in Ecuador that put induction stoves in 750,000 households.
August 15, 2023
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Experts discuss how environmental changes are altering the risk for mosquito-borne diseases
In Stanford News, Faculty Affiliates Erin Mordecai and Desiree LaBeaud discuss what we know and how communities can protect themselves from these changing disease threats.
August 08, 2023
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The vice of spice: Confronting lead-tainted turmeric
A King Center-supported initiative focused on reducing lead exposure was featured in Undark for their research in Bangladesh, which resulted in government intervention.
July 19, 2023
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Changing tides
Research funding recipient Ceyenna Tillman shares what led her to study the oceans, and why the next generation of ocean scholars must define the field more broadly.
June 08, 2023
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Toward a better theory of learning
With support from the King Center, Anirudh Sankar traveled to Uganda to study how small-holder farmers learn about farming practices through a novel irrigation system.
June 05, 2023
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Beyond climate dread
Faculty Affiliates Stephen Luby, Desiree LaBeaud, and Jade Benjamin-Chung discuss their work in finding solutions to the urgent problems of planetary and human health.
June 02, 2023
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The spice seller's secret
Faculty Affiliate Stephen Luby and affiliated researcher Jenna Forysth discuss their research on hunting for the sources of lead poisoning in Bangladesh.
June 02, 2023
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Just add prawns
Faculty Affiliate Giulio De Leo's research on schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease, takes him to the Senegal River, where introducing prawns may help combat the parasite.
May 08, 2023
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The future of mosquito-borne diseases
Faculty Affiliate Erin Mordecai explains why warmer and wetter weather will mean more tropical illnesses far beyond the tropics.
April 07, 2023
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Study finds trash, household crowding increase risk for three dangerous, mosquito-borne illnesses in Kenya
With the risk of mosquito-borne disease expected to grow with climate change, Faculty Affiliate Desiree LaBeaud reveals the factors that put communities at risk for such illnesses.
April 03, 2023
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Keeping an eye on an island nation’s marine life
King Center support helped advance Bianca Santos’s research in Palau, where she is studying the impacts of climate change on small-scale fisheries.
March 27, 2023
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Testing the winds
Anna-Katharina von Krauland’s research on potential wind farm development in the US and India could help ease the transition to renewable energy.
March 06, 2023
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The lifesaving benefits of convenient infrastructure: Evidence from Bangladesh
Research by PhD student Nina Buchmann shows that physical proximity to pathogen-free water sources reduces child and adult mortality.
December 05, 2022