Atmospheric chemist and Nobelist F. Sherwood Rowland is first Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecturer April 20-21 at Cornell

F. Sherwood Rowland, will inaugurate the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lectureship at Cornell April 20 and 21 with lectures on science and public policy.

David Macdonald, Roger Chartier and Phillip V. Tobias to give public lectures

David Macdonald, head of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University, will deliver a public lecture in April during his first visit to Cornell as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large.

Alien animals, plants and microbes cost U.S. $123 billion a year, Cornell ecologists report

A few bad actors among the more than 30,000 non-indigenous species in the United States cost $123 billion a year in economic losses, Cornell University ecologists estimate. "It doesn't take many trouble-makers to cause tremendous damage," Cornell ecologist David Pimentel.

'Environment Appreciation Days' need volunteer help

Cornell students and other members of the Cornell community are needed to take part in 4-H's annual Environmental Appreciation Days, scheduled this year for May 1, 4 and 7.

U.S. could feed 800 million people with grain that livestock eat, Cornell ecologist advises animal scientists

From one ecologist's perspective, the American system of farming grain-fed livestock consumes resources far out of proportion to the yield, accelerates soil erosion, affects world food supply and will be changing in the future.

Thanks to April Fools' Nor'easter, parts of New England acquire new monthly snowfall-total records

Mother Nature had its own April Fools' prank in store for the Northeast -- it took only the first day of this month to record the snowiest April ever for Boston, Worcester, Mass., and Providence, R.I., according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.

Digging at the roots of physics at the Cornell Theory Center

Almost 50 years ago, physicists determined the value of one of the fundamental fixed values of physics, the fine structure constant, using quantum electrodynamics theory -- or did they?

21st century medicine is topic for 12th annual Cornell Biotechnology Symposium on Oct. 15

Three advanced technologies are about to expand the horizons of health care, speakers at the 12th annual Cornell Biotechnology Symposium, "Frontiers in Biomedicine," will predict on Oct. 15 from 9 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. in the ground floor conference room of the Biotechnology Building at Cornell.

Weird winter weather is good for bird diversity, thousands of FeederWatchers report in continentwide study

Last winter's mish-mash of weather sent bird-watchers to their field guides as species showed up where they're usually not. Documenting irruptions of seldom-seen species throughout North America.