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.
A new study finds that emissions from fire activity were significantly greater in the preindustrial era, which began around 1750, than previously thought.
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.
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.
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.
Wildlife veterinarian Steven Osofsky finds ways to allow wild animals such as zebra and wild buffalo to rediscover ancient migration routes through southern Africa while helping cattle farmers to make a living.
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.
The study of what earth scientists call the “critical zone” – the area where rock, water soil, organisms and the atmosphere meet – is expanding with a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant.
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.