A new hydrogen filling station – nestled in Ithaca – could help to activate a new, national energy economy, since automakers plan to begin selling fuel-cell cars by 2016.
Cut-out, smackdown, payback, tune-in and turn-off: It’s time for “Think Big, Live Green,” a major energy conservation and sustainability campaign being launched Sept. 4 by Cornell’s College of Engineering.
Cornell scientists and alumni are part of a participatory plant breeding movement that seeks to produce organically gown seeds for crops appropriate to local climate conditions.
Researchers and extension educators are working to help promote regional wild fish and game species to locavores as healthy food options, by adding the data they've collected to nutritional databases and starting a Wild Harvest Table initiative.
Cornell horticulture professor Su-Sheng Gan has identified an enzymatic fountain of youth that slows down the process of leaf death and lays the foundation for the genetics of freshness.
A new Cornell study explains why aquarium catfish can change the structure and function of ecosystems when pet owners set them free and they become abundant in non-native waters.
Undergraduates in the lab of Nelson Hairston, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Environmental Science, perform scientific research in a supportive atmosphere.
For the first time, Cornell University ranked fifth among Sierra magazine’s Ten Coolest Schools in the country, earning that spot for the environmental mindset on campus.
Two negatives – cow manure and flies – can make a positive. Cornell animal scientists, entomologists and a business professor will examine the environmental impact and commercial potential of quickly processing dairy cow manure with fly larvae. And then using the dried larvae to feed other farm animals.
