Financial strategies can advance sustainability goals, but only if environmental trade-offs can be measured and incorporated into decisions, a panel of experts said at a Climate Week NYC 2026 event co-hosted by the SC Johnson College and Cornell Atkinson.
Fengqi You, professor of energy systems engineering at Cornell University, studies sustainable energy systems. He is currently researching the impact of multi-country hydroelectric power systems.
As an undergraduate researcher, Maya Mangala-Munuma '25 found that trees were three times more likely to be damaged in impoverished, racially diverse neighborhoods.
New event asks the community to decrease technology use, increase face-to-face interaction and consider that every AI chat, doomscroll and text message has a water, energy and carbon footprint.
From Sept. 10–12, future-oriented scholars from around the United States will convene at the Just Ocean and Coastal Futures Conference at Cornell University to imagine, design, and support reparative frameworks in ocean and coastal studies.
Fungal diseases can contribute up to 20% of staple crop losses and drug-resistant fungal infections lead to some 3.8 million human deaths, globally per year.
Christine A. Leuenberger is a senior lecturer in science and technology studies who looks at the social impact of borders and barriers, and the social studies of cartography. She says Lake Ontario shows US-Canadian cooperation.
Science historian Sara B. Pritchard describes a massive spike in the amount of artificial light in the 21st century, with light pollution increasing by nearly 10% annually between 2011 and 2022.
The United Nations released a new report warning the world will miss its climate target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times and calling for ways to limit the resulting “overshoot.”
The exhibition featuring books, maps and other visual materials related to the study of glaciers and the Earth’s shifting climate opens Sept. 17 at the Hirshland Exhibition Gallery of Carl A. Kroch Library.
