Cornell Tech is planning for its Bloomberg Center academic building to reach net-zero and LEED Platinum status, with all of the energy needed to power the building generated on campus.
Edward O. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner often considered the father of the modern environmental movement, will deliver the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture Friday, April 19.
Karen Pinkus, professor of Romance studies and comparative literature, has written "Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary," to scramble our thinking about fuel as distinct from energy.
The emerald ash borer – an invasive beetle that has destroyed ash trees across the country – has been detected for the first time in Tompkins County in Cornell's 4,200-acre Arnot Forest.
A proposal to develop a portable, affordable turbidimeter, a tool for measuring water quality, has won a $90,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity and the Planet student design competition.
Academic experts and industry insiders will gather at Cornell on Dec. 8 for a global summit to discuss new approaches to emerging food system challenges.
The Walmart Foundation announced Jan. 21 that Cornell has won a 2016 U.S. Manufacturing Innovation Fund grant for breakthroughs in textile manufacturing processes.
Michael Willis, Cornell earth and atmospheric sciences research associate, has been named to the ArcticDEM scientific team that will – for the first time – create high-resolution topographical Arctic maps.