Arthur DeGaetano is director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and an expert on climate data.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Facebook’s global head of safety faced questions from senator’s about concerns that the photo-sharing app has caused mental and emotional harm. Brooke Erin Duffy, says Big Tech’s self-regulation mechanisms continue to fail users.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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Ariel Avgar is an associate professor at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and associate director with the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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Linda Shi, an urban environmental planner and assistant professor in city and regional planning, comments on plans from the Biden administration to substantially raise flood insurance rates for many coastal homeowners beginning on Oct. 1 — an effort to better reflect the cost of growing flood risks.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Facebook is pausing plans to build an “Instagram for kids” and instead focus on teen safety and parental supervision features for its younger users. Several Cornell University experts weigh in on the decision.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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A new era in politics has officially begun in Germany.

Law and Policy

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Today, the New York City Council is likely to pass a package of legislation that will set minimum pay and improve working conditions for app-based delivery workers. Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says the protections expected to be approved today are needed, but much more must be done.

Industrial and Labor Relations

New York City

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Bitcoin, Ethereum and dogecoin are falling as cryptocurrency gets caught up in the Evergrande selloff. 

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Law School

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Adam Seth Litwin, says because frontline caregivers are in such high demand, the healthcare sector may need to rely on prevention instead of treatment.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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The U.S. will start easing travel restrictions for international visitors who are vaccinated against Covid-19 in November. Chekitan Dev and Ian Greer weigh in on how the loosened restrictions will impact to the tourism industry in the U.S. as well as what foreign travelers may encounter upon arrival.

School of Hotel Administration

Industrial and Labor Relations

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