Slope Day will safer and greener this year with more volunteers, water backpacks and teams of roaming scouts. But the event still needs more volunteers. (April 25, 2012)
Author and conservationist Peter Matthiessen, a two-time National Book Award winner, delivered the 2012 Iscol Environmental Lecture before a packed Statler Auditorium April 23.
The Belleville-Henderson Central School District in northern New York is helping Cornell scientists study grass as a low-tech, local renewable energy system by maintaining switchgrass trial plots. (Nov. 3, 2011)
Cornell University Sustainable Design hosted the inaugural 'Interdisciplinary Sustainability Student Summit' Oct. 29 to generate an intercollegiate discussion about sustainability issues. (Nov. 1, 2011)
Cornell Cooperative Extension is launching the Regional Forestry Initiative in 13 New York counties to help more forest owners better manage their arboreal holdings. (Feb. 13, 2008)
Cornell and the global humanitarian organization CARE will fight poverty among the world's most vulnerable populations and create solutions for global concerns, including world hunger and climate change. (April 19, 2012)
People's jobs are 'the first thing on my mind when I get up in the morning, and the last thing on my mind when I go to bed at night,' President David Skorton said at the Nov. 6 forum. (Nov. 7, 2008)
One way to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by the end of the century is by setting up fields of air-capture devices that absorb the gas, according to a Cornell paper. (Oct. 5, 2010)
Cornell computer scientists have proposed an innovative wireless design that could greatly reduce the cost and power consumption of massive cloud computing data centers, while improving performance. (Sept. 26, 2012)
Environmental activist Bill McKibben said global warming is 'a deep and present emergency,' as this year's Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecturer April 21. (April 22, 2011)