Book links food security to political stability

Even more violent food riots and overthrown governments are predicted in a new book edited by Cornell's Christopher B. Barrett, “Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability.”

Hotels' green efforts don’t affect revenues

Studying 9,000 hotels, two Cornell researchers conclude that the hotel industry's effort to implement sustainability don't affect their revenues.

Cornell Tech designed 'for next century'

At a New York City symposium Nov. 15, the sustainable elements of the Cornell NYC Tech campus on Roosevelt Island were described in detail.

Service learning course embraces design and health

Students in a new service learning course study the public health impacts of such hot-button local issues as the county jail expansion and whether Ithaca homeowners should be allowed to have backyard chicken coops.

Volunteers plant trees, remove debris in Breezy Point

Forty Cornellians helped plant trees and remove debris Nov. 9 in Breezy Point, Queens, N.Y., where residents are still recovering from the impacts of last year’s Hurricane Sandy.

Skorton: Hard work ahead for campus sustainability

While Cornellians reported that the university’s carbon footprint strategies were working, the campus still had a long road to meet its sustainability goals by 2050.

Smithsonian's Monfort urges sustaining biodiversity

In a lecture on campus Nov. 6, the Smithsonian's Steven Monfort discussed preservation efforts to save species and predicted more collaborations with Cornell scientists.

As crop indicators, weeds spread in warmer world

Weeds, those unwanted, unloved and annoying invasive plants that farmers and gardeners hate amid their plantings, are expanding to northern latitudes, thanks to rising temperatures.

Grants support Great Lakes biology surveys

Cornell received three grants, one for $3.5 million, to collect data on the biology of the Great Lakes, information that continues long-term datasets and provides current measures for researchers, fishery managers and policy makers.