A partnership between International Programs in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is training African students in advanced cassava breeding.
A new study by scientists at Cornell and in Norway finds that UV-B light suppresses cucumber powdery mildew; less use of fungicides may result from the finding.
A new report calls for saving half of the 1.5 billion acres of North America's boreal forest – one of the world's last great forests – to protect the habitat for more than 300 migratory bird species.
With as much as 40 percent of the world’s potentially arable land unusable due to aluminum toxicity, a solution may be near in the form of a rice gene.
Humanists and scientists will examine some of the issues and implications of climate change at 'Climate Change, Critical Thought, Design: A Forum,' Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. in the A.D. White House.
For freshwater environmental education projects and for helping save the American eel throughout the New York City region, Chris Bowser, an extension support specialist for Cornell’s New York State Water Resources Institute, has won a U.S. EPA Environmental Quality Award.
Supporting graduate students' research in renewable energy while allowing those students to hone their communication skills are the goals of a National Science Foundation graduate fellows program. (Nov. 1, 2011)