In the continuing effort to save energy, enhance environmental operations and increase ecological education, Cornell earned its third consecutive gold STARS rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
A new study shows that the off season can produce a second harvest ongoing work will refine fertilization guidelines to boost crop production with minimizing risk of soil loss and nitrogen leaching.
Literally digging up the dirt, Cornell researchers have found that burgeoning deer populations forever alters a forest’s natural future by disrupting the soil’s seed banks.
Cornell students examined Philadelphia’s Center City to disentangle traffic and create a sustainable, sociable economy for the city decades into the future. In a design competition, it won first place.
The zone of overlap between two popular, closely related backyard birds is moving northward at a rate that matches warming winter temperatures, a new study finds.
The combination of natural enemies, such as ladybeetles, with Bt crops, delays a pest's ability to evolve resistance to the crops' insecticidal proteins, according to new research.
Cornell oceanographer Charles Greene will give two presentations at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 23-28 in Honolulu, on marine algae and tracking fish populations.
Check in to conservation and check out sustainability: Cornell’s Statler Hotel will receive the 2014 Good Earthkeeping Award, the greenest award bestowed by the New York State Hospitality and Tourism Association.
Emeritus professor of biological and environmental engineering Louis Albright challenged the sustainability of indoor urban farms in a campus talk Feb. 10.
Many tropical mountain birds are shifting their ranges upslope to escape warmer temperatures, but tropical species appear to be more sensitive to climate shifts than species from temperate regions.
