Youth build resilience in climate-vulnerable Sierre Leone

A collaboration based in Bo City empowers future leaders to invest in climate adaptation, providing a model for other "secondary cities."

Widespread ‘enhanced rock weathering’ could slow global warming

One of the most recent technologies for sequestering carbon, enhanced rock weathering could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

Helping urban youth use AI to navigate the future

Christian Gant-Madison's '25 platform will use AI to connect youth to jobs, skill development opportunities, civic education information and social resources.

Around Cornell

Cornell opens state’s first indoor adaptive challenge course

Members of the Cornell community and the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce came together Feb. 10 to celebrate the opening of a new indoor adaptive challenge course at the Noyes Community Recreation Center.

‘Unprecedented’ emissions maps will hone mitigation

The new, high-resolution maps calculate global emissions from croplands by region, crop and source – enabling hyper-local mitigation. 

Astronomer Anna Ho named Cottrell Scholar

With a proposal titled “Fast Transients: Revealing the Diversity of Relativistic Stellar Explosions,” Ho is one of 24 early career scholars in chemistry, physics and astronomy each receiving $120,000 for proposals incorporating research and science education.

Around Cornell

Composers tackle environmental issues in new exhibit

A multimedia Cornell University Library exhibition, demonstrating how music can be a powerful vehicle for raising environmental awareness, opens Feb. 20 at the Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance.

Awards and honors: Newcomb prize, arts fellows and more

Two professors who won a prize for their paper on artificial intelligence and conspiracy theories are among several faculty members recently honored for their work.

Grants fund oyster restoration, ‘cattlevoltaics’

Five new projects from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and The Nature Conservancy seek to protect pollinators, restore oyster habitats, manage flood risk and support “cattlevoltaics.”