Charles H. Greene is a professor of Earth and Atmospheric sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, a fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and a leading expert in effects of global climate change on ocean ecosystems and extreme weather.

Arts and Sciences

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New York’s foliage season has begun with fall colors starting to appear in the North Country, Central New York, Mid-Hudson and Capital regions. Cornell University experts Taryn Bauerle and Daniel Weitoish offer a foliage forecast for New York.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

New York State

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Andrew Novakovic is a professor in Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Science’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, whose research focuses on the U.S. dairy industry and federal policy related to dairy, other agriculture and food.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Aaron Wightman, co-director of the Cornell Maple Program, weighs in on the current season, how climate change is impacting sap flow and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the New York maple industry.

Food & Agriculture

New York State

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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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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Steve Reiners, professor of horticulture at the New York State Agriculture Experiment Station, says that an unusually cold spring put early NY crops such as peas, lettuce and broccoli behind schedule – but it’s too early to call the season a washout.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food & Agriculture

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The world’s biggest producer of pork, Smithfield Foods, announced it will close one of its pork-processing facilities after many workers at the plant tested positive for coronavirus. Martin Wiedmann, a food scientist and professor of food safety at Cornell University, says that the shutdown illustrates the challenges of minimizing the risk of contagion among workers in the food industry. 

Economics and Business

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Steven Michael Ward, assistant professor of government at Cornell University who studies the causes and conduct of war, comments on the U.S. airstrike assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

Arts and Sciences

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Isaac Weisfuse, medical epidemiologist at Cornell University, says coronavirus variants may threaten the efficacy of current vaccines and travelers should not assume it is 100 percent safe, even if vaccinated.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

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Charles Greene, professor of oceanography at Cornell University, comments on endangered North Atlantic right whales and the dangers they face in migrating further north.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Engineering

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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