Frank DiSalvo said at the Sustainable Earth, Energy and Environmental Systems speaker series that significant progress toward sustainable energy, including solar energy, will occur by mid-century. (Sept. 15, 2010)
Cornell chemists have now developed a way to make porous metal films with up to 1,000 times the electrical conductivity offered by previous methods. (April 2, 2012)
Cornell researchers were recently awarded $1.5 million as part of a $9 million grant to develop a unified, interdisciplinary and tech-savvy approach to outpace the pathogen. (March 31, 2011)
A Shoals Marine Lab researcher believes that commercial harvest of rockweed, a brown seaweed found in intertidal zones, poses a threat to the community of 150 species that use this seaweed habitat. (Sept. 10, 2012)
Nearly 200 researchers from universities, private laboratories and government agencies will converge on Cornell June 8-11 for the first conference on computational sustainability. (June 5, 2009)
It is the first building on campus to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification, the highest rating for sustainable structures. (Sept. 6, 2012)
The Southern Patagonian Ice Field lost ice volume at a 50 percent faster rate between 2000-2012 than it did between 1975-2000, according to new analysis of digital elevation models. (Sept. 5, 2012)
Paul Sawyer, professor of English, launched the Plantations' Fall Lecture Series with a talk about John Ruskin, the 'first ecologist,' Aug. 29. (Sept. 4, 2012)
Botanical gardens and arboreta play many roles in local communities, stressed Donald Rakow, director of Cornell Plantations, in a talk at New York City's 92nd Street Y March 14. (March 20, 2012)