Cornell's efforts in renewable bioenergy, green building and sustainable living were honored at this year's Sustainable Tompkins' Annual Holiday Party Dec. 7 in Ithaca. (Dec. 10, 2008)
Environmental scientist Benjamin Z. Houlton, the new dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, says agriculture is the most important industry of the 21st century – and a powerful weapon to combat climate change.
Two national contests - one to recycle and compost campuswide and another to conserve energy and water in residence halls - mix fun with raising awareness about conservation on campus.
Students in a new service learning course study the public health impacts of such hot-button local issues as the county jail expansion and whether Ithaca homeowners should be allowed to have backyard chicken coops.
About 50 students involved with the Cornell University Sustainable Design group are working to research, design and build an affordable sustainable model home in Nicaragua.
Viruses are well known for making people sick, but a new study provides evidence for the first time of viral infections in tiny marine crustaceans called copepods.
Global warming has curbed butter production worldwide, which has boosted U.S. exports of both butter and cheese, experts reported at Cornell's Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference Dec. 14. (Dec. 15, 2010)
A team of Cornell undergraduates has been chosen to showcase its design of a sustainable solution to New York City's storm water runoff problem at the Museum of the City of New York April 22. (April 21, 2010)
In a campus seminar April 15, Steven E. Koonin, undersecretary of energy for science in the U.S. Department of Energy, said that sustainability is mostly about managing resource imbalances. (April 20, 2010)