The movement involves not only re-establishing heritage foods, but also bolstering the systems that sustain them: irrigation and land access, for instance.
Catherine Kling, an environmental economist and an expert in water quality modeling, and Johannes Lehmann, a professor of soil and crop sciences, comment on sustainable agrowaste management practices and the threat of commercial fertilizer pollution as Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Florida.
A Cornell study that revealed commercial eastern common bumblebee hives pose a threat to their wild counterparts has led one major pollination company to quickly adapt the bumblebee hive boxes they ship to growers.
While upstate New Yorkers are evenly split on utility-scale solar farms, naysayers object partly due to a perception that rural residents unfairly bear the burden of meeting downstate urban energy demands without compensation, a survey has found.
Fengqi You, a professor of energy systems engineering and an expert on the life cycle of solar panels, comments on First Solar's announced expansion in the U.S., and Max Zhang, a sustainable energy systems expert, discusses what it can mean for solar panel reuse and recycling.
Though human-made ponds both sequester and release greenhouse gases, when added up, they may be net emitters, according to two related studies by Cornell researchers.
