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Evolution of Earth and Life

coral in Bikini atoll
June 28, 2017
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Stanford researchers are exploring how corals that re-colonized Bikini Atoll after nuclear bomb tests 70 years ago have adapted to persistent radiation. Their work is featured in a PBS series.

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May 10, 2017

A new analysis by Stanford researchers reveals that the ideal temperature for the spread of mosquito-born diseases like dengue, chikungunya and Zika is 29 degrees C. This finding helps predict disease outbreaks in a warming world.

Tiziana Vanorio in her lab.
February 25, 2014

For Tiziana Vanorio, an unsettling childhood experience in Italy led to a lifelong fascination with rocks.

Volcano eruption
January 13, 2014

A new study confirms a prediction made by Paul Segall that measurements of ground movement near a volcano vary with eruption rate. 

People standing by a cliff
April 27, 2010

Earth experienced its biggest mass extinction 250 million years ago. New evidence from Stanford, which looks at calcium isotopes, suggests massive volcanic eruptions were to blame for ocean acidification that wiped out 90 percent of marine biodiversity. The result may parallel today's climate change and ocean acidification.