Center News and Notes

U.S.-Mexico border walls expand further into remote and sensitive areas; federal judge favors salmon over ag interests; the ongoing sewer crisis on the Tijuana River; solar power over California agricultural fields? And more environmental stories…

University Libraries has digitized the papers of Kazuyuki Takahashi, who was a Stanford PhD student when President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized what was to become the mass internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Records of Takahashi'…

Widely distributed but hard to disentangle, exotic elements are vital to green energy and military applications. For decades, China has dominated the dirty business of mining and processing rare earth ores. Two Mojave desert mines, one operating and…

On Tues., Jan. 20, the Madera Irrigation District (MID) memorialized the late Dick Luthy, renowned Stanford environmental engineer and Lane Center research affiliate, for his lifelong commitment to water sustainability. Among family, friends and…

Atmospheric rivers are a natural part of the water cycle in the western United States, and can be a welcome reprieve to drought and wildfires. But with climate change, they are growing larger and more hazardous. The Doerr School's Da Yang explains…