Botanical gardens and arboreta play many roles in local communities, stressed Donald Rakow, director of Cornell Plantations, in a talk at New York City's 92nd Street Y March 14. (March 20, 2012)
Graduate students win new sustainability grants for research on biogeochemical processes related to climate science and research on sustainable biodiversity.
Landscape architect Gil Hanse, MLA '89, won the bid to design an environmentally sensitive golf course for the 2016 Olympics with CALS professor Frank Rossi. (March 12, 2012)
A new report has found dozens of cases of illness, death and reproductive issues in cows, horses, goats, llamas, chickens, dogs, cats, fish and other wildlife, and humans.
A Cornell study's contention that hydraulic fracturing would be worse for climate change than burning coal is being challenged by another study, also by Cornell researchers. (March 2, 2012)
David G. White, a New York Sea Grant specialist, was among the 80 invited guests at the White House Community Leaders Briefing on the Great Lakes Region Feb. 29. (March 1, 2012)
Cornell's Cooperative Extension-NYC's 'Living Green' program is teaching residents in 30 affordable housing residential buildings how to live 'greener' and more healthfully.
The most profitable hotels in Spain are those with a sustainability certification, according to a new study from Cornell University's Center for Hospitality Research.
Ravi Singh, a Cornell adjunct professor, said how wheat varieties are being developed rapidly to combat a global threat at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Feb. 16-20.
Collaborators on the Cornell Gleaning Project are discovering ways to help farmers efficiently harness the leftover crops that they don't sell to donate to food banks.
