Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Cornell is a global leader in sustainability and climate change research, teaching and engagement. Our campuses are living laboratories for developing, testing and implementing solutions that address these most challenging issues.


U.N. report sounds alarm on farming land-use crisis

To feed the world’s burgeoning population while saving it from exhausting natural land resources, the United Nations issued a report on global land use.

Dining scraps could power sewage plant

Methane from biodigested food scraps could power Ithaca's wastewater treatment facility, Cornell sustainability students predict.

Cook stove designs aid developing nations

A contest held by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise produced innovative, multi-fuel cookers for the developing world.

Engineer designs digital solution for pesticide drift

Andrew Landers, a senior extension associate at Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, has developed sprayers that reduce excess pesticide use.

Watkins named Cornell Cooperative Extension director

Christopher Watkins, Cornell's Herman M. Cohn Professor of Postharvest Science, has been named director of Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Facilities VP named to sustainability association board

KyuJung Whang, Cornell vice president for facilities, has been named to the board of directors of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

Keith Tidball named USDA visiting scholar

Senior extension associate Keith Tidball, an expert on disaster response and recovery, has been selected a 2014 visiting scholar by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Study links poor dolphin health to Gulf oil spill

Dolphin health took a toxic nosedive in one of the areas hit hard by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a new study led by NOAA that includes work by Cornell scientists.

DELLAs bolster symbiosis in Green Revolution crops

Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell researchers have identified a plant protein called DELLA that may lead to reducing phosphorus-fertilizer applications on farms and better plant growth in poor soil.