Each year $160 billion worth of wasted food ends up in America's landfills. A Cornell economist has received a two-year, $500,000 USDA grant to get consumers and food distributors to squander less.
Robert Howarth spoke to the University Assembly Oct. 18 about the recently released Senior Leaders Climate Action Group report on options and their associated costs for achieving a carbon-neutral campus by 2035.
The dramatic increase in earthquakes in central Oklahoma since 2009 is likely attributable to subsurface wastewater injection at a handful of wastewater disposal wells, finds a study published in the journal Science July 3.
A new study in Science reveals that biodiversity in forests promotes productivity. When the number of tree species increases, so does the amount of timber that can be harvested, so the gains from conservation far exceed the costs.
As sea levels rise, the Coney Island peninsula may become uninhabitable. Cornell landscape architecture graduate students wrestle with the island’s tenable, livable resilience as nature aims to reclaim it.
Rafe Pomerance ’68, who played an early, pivotal role in raising awareness about the threat of climate change, will participate in a June 8 Reunion panel, “Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing Climate Risks.”
A $20 million business competition and business support program is accepting applications from innovative, clean-energy businesses seeking to locate in New York’s 11-county Southern Tier. Application deadline is March 15.
A conference in Hong Kong April 6-7 brought together 80 researchers and practitioners in Asia and the United States to share sustainable practices and solutions.
As a consequence to a warming Earth, the risk of a megadrought in the American Southwest – one that lasts more than 35 years – likely will increase to a 20- to 50-percent chance this century.