How can low-carbon concrete floors be a health and climate solution?

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#climatesolutions #research #publichealth

Human urine is often seen as waste. But globally, it contains enough nitrogen to meet 14% of annual fertilizer demand.

A new Stanford-designed system uses solar power to extract fertilizer directly from urine.

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It's research grant award season! Each year, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment awards funding to bold, interdisciplinary projects tackling our planet’s most urgent challenges.

🏆 Meet the 2025 awardees here: bit.ly/3UCIhR8

New points for policymakers from Woods scholars lay out:

🌽 What we've learned from 50 years of #ClimateChange effects on crops: stanford.io/3HmXfaH

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🌍 What farmer adaptations could mean for global #FoodSecurity: bit.ly/4mbrf8O

💡New points for policymakers highlight the benefits of prescribed fire compared to mechanical thinning and potential applications to wildfire policy 🔥

Download the research brief with insights from Stanford scholars Makoto Kelp, Noah Diffenbaugh, and Marshall Burke: stanford.io/4mnek3h

In an era of global change, ocean scientist Fiorenza Micheli and literary scholar Margaret Cohen are coming together to explore people's impact on and connection to the ocean through the "blue" humanities 🌊

Watch the latest #UncommonCollaborators episode 🎥 bit.ly/4mitoPL

Sometimes, solutions are simple. Stephen Luby, Nina Brooks @bostonu.bsky.social, and icddr,b researchers tested a low-cost, low-tech intervention to reduce #pollution from #BrickKilns in Bangladesh, a major threat to public health and the environment.

🎥: bit.ly/4kwdSPe
📝: stanford.io/3FGCK7Y