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.


Native bees are better pollinators, more plentiful than honeybees, finds entomologist

Native bees are better pollinators and more plentiful than honeybees, finds entomologist Bryan Danforth, who is involved in two big projects to further study native bee populations.

Law School to host international water conference Nov. 4-6

Cornell Law School will host a three-day conference Nov. 4-6 to examine the growing water shortage crisis in the Mediterranean basin. (Oct. 24, 2011)

Cornell's planned NYC Tech Campus drives for a sustainable 'net-zero energy' core

The proposed New York City Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island will utilize solar and geothermal power to harvest as much energy as it consumes. In the parlance of energy experts, it will be 'net-zero energy.' (Oct. 24, 2011)

On sustainability forefront, CU is showing how it can be done, say panelists

Cornell demonstrates 'a way forward' in sustainability, said panelists at a discussion Oct. 21 during Trustee-Council Weekend. (Oct. 21, 2011)

From red planet to deep blue sea: Astronomer Squyres becomes NASA aquanaut

Astronomer Steven Squyres, who helped lead the Rover missions to Mars, is one of six crew members on a 13-day undersea NASA training mission off Key Largo to simulate an asteroid mission. (Oct. 20, 2011)

Center for Transformative Action celebrates 40 years as catalyst for social change

The Center for Transformative Action is celebrating its 40th anniversary as an incubator of social change. (Oct. 19, 2011)

Kiln to make rural Kenyan village energy self-sufficient with agricultural boon

With the first continuous slow pyrolysis unit built at a U.S. university, a research team are on the cusp of harnessing the power of organic material to fuel an entire village in Kenya. (Oct. 18, 2011)

Researchers attack a stinker of a pest; iPhone users can help track the invader

Researchers have received almost half a million dollars to fight the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, which has the potential to destroy New York's crops.

Dean addresses Colombian government, business leaders

Dean Kathryn Boor talked about global agriculture in a keynote address, Oct. 6; she shared the stage with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. (Oct. 17, 2011)