With support from Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, faculty members are researching harmful molds in food that damage the health of African mothers and babies.
There's still disagreement on "global warming," Cornell and USC researchers discover, but a frosty winter is building support for the concept of "climate change."
Because urban sanitation scores don't tell the whole story in India, Cornell water-resources experts recommend allowing cities to custom-design measures that will save lives and lift their residents to improved health.
Cornell plant breeders have released a new alfalfa variety with some resistance against alfalfa snout beetle, which has ravaged alfalfa fields in New York.
Homemade wind turbines dotted the Ithaca Children's Garden at Cass Park April 22 for the final judging of the 'Catch the Breeze Wind Turbine Challenge' competition. (April 26, 2012)
Cornell’s David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future has given $1.2 million from its Academic Venture Fund to 11 new university projects from 37 proposals.
Procuring the sun’s vital energy, Cornell has electrifying news: The Cornell Snyder Road Solar Farm – teeming with 6,778 freshly installed photovoltaic panels, is set to go live Sept. 19.
Author Peter Matthiessen will present the 2012 Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture on 'Big Oil and Our First Climate Change Refugees,' April 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. (April 10, 2012)