Over a million hours of sound recordings are available from the Elephant Listening Project (ELP) in the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology – a rainforest residing in the cloud.
Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, comments on the environmental impact of chemical compounds known as PFAS.
Research led by Jonathon Schuldt ’04, associate professor of communication, found that a majority of the U.S. public is supportive of soil carbon storage as a climate change mitigation strategy, particularly when it’s viewed as “natural.”
The remnants from Hurricane Ida deluged the Northeast, prompting rivers to overflow and qualifying as 500-year rain events, according to Cornell’s Northeast Regional Climate Center.
Cornell's Adult University invites alumni, their friends and family, and the general public to expand their minds this summer by taking live, online courses for adults and youth taught by Cornell faculty and graduate students.
Thanks to $1 million in new grants, Cornell scientists will model adding reflective aerosols into the stratosphere, which may deflect enough sunbeams to reduce Earth’s temperature and limit climate change.
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability collaborated with partner organizations to design the Innovative Food System Solution portal, where contributors can describe, connect, and collaborate around innovative solutions for food systems challenges.
In an oceanic omen for climate change’s intensifying effects, Cornell-led research shows that seagrass suffers from a wasting disease and root-system deterioration.
Neighborhoods that had populations with predominantly longer commute times to work – from about 40 minutes to an hour – were more likely to become infectious disease hotspots, according to new research.
Linda Shi, urban environmental planner and assistant professor in architecture, art and planning, comments on the Trump administration's reliance on eminent domain to remove homeowners from flood zones.
