Anindita Banerjee is an associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University and a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. She says the ruling highlights the importance of invisible threats such as climate change, and harkens back to the 1960s debate over pesticides.
Declaring this the “decisive decade” for climate action, Cornell launched The 2030 Project: A Climate Initiative, which will mobilize world-class faculty to develop and accelerate tangible solutions to the climate challenge.
The new Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems, or CROPPS, funded by a five-year, $25 million National Science Foundation grant, aims to grow a new field called digital biology.
Mark Wysocki, a meteorologist who specializes in forecasting and weather analysis at the Northeast Regional Climate Center, comments on a large fall snow storm moving into the Northeast, and future storm trends.
Cornell University faculty and industry partners will gather for a discussion about new clean energy technologies and pilot programs that will keep the Empire State, and the world, sustainably energized well into the future.
Arthur DeGaetano, director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, and climatologists Jessica Spaccio and Samantha Borisoff are available for interviews about Hurricane Florence and can discuss landfall probabilities, past similar storms, and anticipated impacts.
In Nature Geoscience, Cornell’s Johannes Lehmann says that scientists should develop new models that accurately reflect soil carbon-storage processes to draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Arthur Wheaton, professor of labor at Cornell University and an expert on the automotive sector, comments on the advantages of 3D printing for car manufacturers.
