Robin Hadlock Seeley, a retired senior research associate at Cornell University, comments on the threat of invasive green crabs in Maine waters.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Steven Osofsky, the Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health and Health Policy at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine comments on the death of the last remaining male northern white rhino.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Veterinary Medicine

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

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Aaron Rice, a research associate with the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , comments on Florida's recent ban of offshore drilling.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Lab of Ornithology

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Laura Skinner, associate director of The Worker Institute at Cornell University and Chair of the institute’s Labor Leading on Climate Initiative comments on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's plans to boost the state's offshore wind industry.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Industrial and Labor Relations

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

New York State

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Controversy hit last week when lawmakers threatened to cut U.S. funding for the World Health Organization’s cancer research program over its findings that glyphosate, the herbicide found in Roundup and other weed killers, could be carcinogenic. Cornell University professor of soil and crop sciences, Antonio DiTommaso, says that while the political debate is noteworthy, the larger issue is finding ways to reduce our overreliance on herbicides to avert future weed problems.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Food & Agriculture

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, legislation that sets the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 85 percent by 2050, has been sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and could be signed as early as tomorrow.

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Law, Government & Public Policy

New York State

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Arthur Wheaton, an automotive expert and senior extension associate with Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations says that while the shift to electric trucks makes sense in the long term, Tesla may be straining its resources.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Paul Mutolo, director of External Partnerships for the Energy Materials Center at Cornell University, says automakers are taking a “two-part approach” when it comes to battery and fuel cell technology.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Glen Dowell, a corporate sustainability researcher and associate professor of management and organizations at Cornell University's SC Johnson College of Business, says the decisions tech companies are making to prioritize renewables are potentially filling the void left by Washington.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Washington D.C.

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Amanda Rodewald, a professor of ornithology and director of conservation science at Cornell University, says the tundra swan, Pacific loon and northern pintail would be just a few of the more than 200 bird species at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that would be impacted by activities associated with oil development.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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