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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'…
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Under proposed EPA rules, human life has no economic value; Texas oil companies released millions of pounds of pollutants during icy weather; Northern Cheyenne Tribe to use solar power to help restore bison; a new lead on the sea-star wasting…
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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…
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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…

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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…
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