From creating well-mannered robots to updating weed field guides to understanding why catchy songs turn into earworms, students showed their 2016 Senior Expo research projects April 21.
Warm springs in the Great Lakes and Northeast regions – which create havoc for agriculture – may start earlier by mid-century if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced, says a new study in Climate Dynamics.
A team of scientists from seven institutions has published research that shows a massive loss of nearly 3 billion breeding adult birds since 1970, with devastating losses among birds in every biome.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology researcher Caren Cooper gave a presentation, “Citizens of Science: When Advances are Powered by Crowds,” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago, Feb. 16.
Cornell’s Climate Smart Farming program has added a fifth online tool – the New York State/Northeast Drought Atlas – to help regional farmers cope with an era of global warming.
Mary X. Mitchell, a historian of science and technology and a postdoctoral fellow, describes how a former nuclear test site became a proving ground for a new legal definition of environmental impact.
A five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation grant will allow chemists from Cornell and other institutions to study new ways to make plastics more sustainable.
President David Skorton has released the report of the Climate Action Plan Acceleration Working Group, which recommends actions to help the Ithaca campus become carbon neutral by 2035.
Animal and wildlife officials, and a College of Veterinary Medicine professor have developed policies to ensure safe trade of meat products while also aiding wildlife conservation.
For decades, scientists have known that unhealthy surroundings induce human illness. Now, research suggests that communities of very sick people may damage the environment, according to a new study in PNAS, April 3.