Inter-dorm water conservation competition kicks off
By The Daily News Staff Florence Moore (FloMo) residence halls kicked off Stanford Water Wars, an inter-dorm water conservation competition, Sunday. Each hall’s water consumption will be measured from Feb. 12 to March 12 through an Aquacue Barnacle, a water management product that claims to record the amount of water used with at…
Area lacks concern over snow
By Nardos Girma The amount of water in the snow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains is currently 83 percent below its Jan. 3 average and could impact the San Francisco water system, which currently gets about 85 percent of its water from the Sierra Nevadas.…
Urban heat islands not major contributor to warming, study shows
By The Daily News Staff Cities acting as “urban heat islands” do not significantly affect the overall warming of the planet, according to a study completed by environmental engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson and graduate student John Ten Hoeve, who studies in the same department.…
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