Cornell undergraduates joined 200,000 green advocates to parade down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue for the Peoples Climate March April 29 – in sultry heat – to advocate for rescuing the world from environmental deterioration.
To keep riverfront towns alluring in the face of climate change and rising waters, graduate students at Cornell’s Climate-Adaptive Design studio sketch flexibility into a Hudson River town.
Associate professor of city and regional planning Stephan Schmidt led students in a data collection workshop in Tanzania, with benefits for public health, wildlife conservation and land tenure.
Sustainability improvements, including new climate control technology, at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art have cut overall energy usage by 40 percent.
As methane intensifies greenhouse gas in the atmosphere – propelling average global temperatures higher toward the brink of no return – Cornell’s Robert Howarth briefed the White House on dangers and solutions.
More than 200 Cornell undergraduate and graduate students joined 40,000 scientists and boosters to champion knowledge in the first March for Science in Washington, D.C., April 22.
Cornell researchers set out to understand environmental and cellular triggers that lead to sudden, devastating algal growth and to interrupt cellular communication that causes algae to flourish.
Horticulture professor Phillip Griffiths is working to fight black rot in the sukuma wiki, a staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa, by cross-breeding with similar plants that resist rot.
Honeybees encounter high danger due to lingering and wandering pesticides, according to an analysis of the bee's own food, according to Cornell research in Nature Scientific Reports, April 19.