Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at the Cornell Alliance for Science and author of “Nuclear 2.0: Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power,” comments on California's vote to keep open the state's last remaining nuclear plant.
An interdisciplinary collaboration used paleo information and reconstructed weather scenarios to better understand California’s flood and drought risks and how they will be compounded by climate change.
Students and employees can explore sustainability features of the Ithaca campus, and learn about programs like the sustainable events certification, sustainability & climate course list, and more by participating in the virtual scavenger hunt.
Nexus Scholars working this summer with Juno Salazar Parreñas are studying how human health is intricately connected to the health of animals, plants and the environment.
Fifteen new faculty are bringing innovative ideas in a wide range of topics to the College of Arts & Sciences’ nexus of discovery and impact, including climate change, astronomy, identity studies and the economy.
CaféNana, a banana-inspired, caffeinated pick-me-up snack, partly made with food waste by Cornell students, has won the Institute of Food Technology’s Mars Wrigley Product Development competition.
Greeshma Gadikota, associate professor of engineering, has gathered a team to help capture carbon dioxide in the concrete-making process as they aim to create low-carbon construction materials from it.
Assistant professor Matthew Reid received an NSF CAREER Award to research how carbon can be transformed in the environment to create fuel for nitrogen-consuming bacteria, ultimately reducing nutrient pollution.
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, an applied economist with expertise in agricultural, environmental and energy policy, comments on extreme heat affecting communities across Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere.
