Big Oil Helped Shape Stanford's Latest Climate-Research Focus
The university’s sustainability school chose greenhouse-gas removal after input from fossil-fuel executives. Critics say the industry’s involvement is cause for concern.
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The university’s sustainability school chose greenhouse-gas removal after input from fossil-fuel executives. Critics say the industry’s involvement is cause for concern.
In an open letter to the the Director of the Hoover Institute, the President, the Provost and the Board of Trustees, 90 Stanford faculty members call for a public accounting of Rupert Murdoch's appointment to the Hoover's Board of Overseers. They write, "we wonder what kind of signal his presence sends to our students, who we are training to seek the truth, and to our colleagues on the faculty, who are constantly held to the highest standards of honesty, truth and responsible scholarship."
Following another public statement by the University president, prominent research journals have signaled there may be reason to lose confidence in three papers…
Controversial pandemic pronouncements test an uneasy relationship.
New research shows that physics measurements of just a small portion of reef can be used to assess the health of an entire reef system.