To fend off climate change and help to sustain the Earth, this is a slam dunk: Cornell Athletics has begun to install new LED lights at all campus sports facilities, including Lynah Rink and Newman Arena.
Cornell Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellows soon will return home to 10 countries, taking with them a set of communication tools to contribute to local policy debates on ag technology and food security.
AguaClara, Cornell's water treatment and technology development program, has won a $50,000 cash prize in association with the 2011 Intel Environment Award. (Nov. 7, 2011)
The Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering consortium, announced June 5 and led by researchers at Cornell and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will transform the way greenhouses operate to reduce electricity use for lighting by up to 70 percent.
Two hundred teens and preteens from 16 school districts in southeastern New York learned how to decrease their schools’ environmental impact at the Catskills Youth Climate Change Summit March 11.
Pouring milk into vats, then brining, ripening, dipping and taking notes, more than a dozen students produced delicious cheese at Cornell's sixth Science of Cheese Making and Vat Pasteurization workshop.
Cornell researchers and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) growers discussed indigenous knowledge and traditional agricultural practices at a symposium at Cornell Botanic Gardens.
With a plan to harness the wind, sun, water and the Earth’s heat, a panel from the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group explained to the Cornell community Oct. 31 how the campus could become carbon neutral by 2035.
In the war against MRSA, constructing single-patient rooms – rather than sick-bay style, multi-patient rooms – reduces hospital-acquired infections among patients, says new Cornell-led study.
The way conservation biologists describe a species' risk of extinction, and how the public interprets that description, can be strikingly different, according to a new study by Cornell communication scholars.