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Campus grasslands grow environmental solutions

Projects across Cornell are exploring how the university's grasslands – from hayfields to campus lawns – can protect birds, encourage biodiversity and sequester carbon to fight climate change. 

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Plant lover and Earth advocate

Sandy Knapp PhD ’86 has traversed the world, discovering new and unusual plants and sharing her love of nature.

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Applications open for fifth annual Grow-NY competition

Innovative agribusinesses are encouraged to apply through June 15 for the fifth iteration of the Grow-NY food and agriculture business competition, which will award a total of $3 million in prizes.

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Ed Mabaya named director of Cornell’s Humphrey Program

Ed Mabaya, MS ’98, Ph.D. ’03 has been named director of Cornell’s Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, a premier training program for mid-career professionals from developing and emerging economies in areas of agriculture, rural development and natural resource management.

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Carbon dioxide – not water – triggers explosive volcanoes

Geoscientists have long thought that water helps to drive volcanoes to erupt. Now, thanks to new tools at Cornell, scientists show that carbon dioxide can induce explosive eruptions.

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Staff Stories: Helen Lee

Helen Lee, assistant director of wildlife health and health policy at the College of Veterinary Medicine, talks about the many different responsibilities of her role and the journey that led her back to Cornell where she feels her work is making a difference for wildlife and conservation.

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Honey-based beverage grabs grand prize at food hackathon

Students were tasked with addressing one of four challenges: creating new dairy products, coming up with more efficient food manufacturing processes, lessening the problem of food waste or creating products to increase knowledge and the use of honey and other bee-pollinated products.

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‘Profoundly sad’: Northern long-eared bat endangered status a milestone

April 6, 2022

Elizabeth Buckles, an expert on emerging diseases in avian and non-domestic animals, comments on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's move to reclassify northern long-eared bats as endangered.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
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Artificial light at night aids caterpillar predators

Moderate levels of artificial light at night – like the fixture illuminating your backyard – bring more caterpillar predators and reduce the chance that these lepidoptera larvae grow up to become moths.

Food & Agriculture
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Bioreactors harness bacteria to treat farm runoff

Fertilizer runoff is a significant source of water pollution. Matthew Reid looks to woodchip bioreactors modeled on nature to solve the problem.

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