Media Mentions

Using AI to analyze satellite images, researchers say it’s possible to spot illegal deforestation and forced labor in the Amazon rainforest.

Demand for insurance is high even at the actuarially fair price and receiving it alongside peers increases utilization, yet health effects are elusive

Researchers of the Data for Development initiative introduce machine learning applied to satellite imagery as a solution to measuring sustainable development globally.

The Stanford epidemiologist and King Center Faculty Affiliate reacts to recent news about the effects of plastic on human health.

Affiliated researcher Michael Machala, PhD '17, developed a solar-powered technology to improve the quality and quantity of dried agricultural produce in India

Faculty Affiliate Gary Darmstadt talks about improvements in the infant mortality rate worldwide and what work remains to be done.

Ageing pipe systems and the absence of complementary sanitation investments compromise the health benefits of water disinfection research from King Center Faculty Affiliates show.

Promising technologies for converting wastewater into drinkable water produce a chemical compound that can be toxic, corrosive and malodorous.

Modifying traditional infant massages led to more weight gain and fewer illnesses among newborns in a Stanford-led community study in India.

The Stanford Medicine professor on why it’s important to better understand the microbiome of people transitioning from traditional to Westernized lifestyles.

Karen Eggleston documents how the pandemic’s broad social and economic consequences negatively affected population health well beyond those directly suffering from COVID-19.

These environmental engineers tell Stereo Chemistry about their visions for the future of our water . . . and share some laughs along the way

Stanford infectious disease expert Jason Andrews has spent years studying the spread of tuberculosis in crowded Brazilian prisons and surrounding communities.

Faculty Affiliate Marshall Burke has focused his research on quantifying the social and environmental impacts of climate change.

Research by Faculty Affiliate Christopher Tonetti shows that competition from imports pushes domestic laggards to adopt more efficient practices and technologies.

Faculty Affiliate Lawrence Goulder writes for the World Economic Forum about China's new carbon market, the world's largest.

A new study by the Immigration Policy Lab shows that some governments are trying to make moving easier within Africa.

Policy interventions to stop deforestation are most effective when enacted in a certain order, according to a new Stanford study.

Research in Kenya by Faculty Affiliate Dana Foarta shows that when voters receive payments, politicians are given greater leniency, and in turn steal more.

Susan Athey and a team of economists have been pushing for an unprecedented expansion of vaccine capacity.