Four Cornell Cooperative Extension county offices are leading statewide efforts to establish a network of Regional Clean Energy Hubs as part of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $52 million initiative to connect local communities with clean energy resources.
In a first-of-its-kind analysis, Cornell researchers and partners at the Clinton Health Access Initiative found that pharmaceutical producers could reduce their environmental impact by roughly half by optimizing manufacturing processes and supply chain networks and by switching to renewable energy sources.
Sara Bronin, an architect and attorney who studies how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed and connected places, comments on new census data showing significant population loss in the country’s largest cities.
For Cornell students studying environmental science, creating art with naturally dyed yarn, soil paintings to depict climate change and woodcuts featuring poetry brought ecology into focus.
As the United Nations observes World Water Day, Mildred Warner, a professor of city and regional planning and an expert on how to promote environmental sustainability at the local level, comments on new research on water affordability in U.S. cities.
The hackathons, run by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, are open to undergraduate and graduate students from any field and major and take place from Friday evenings through Sunday afternoon.
Arthur Wheaton, an expert on the automotive industry and director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on the Biden administration's plans to restore California’s authority to set its own auto emission rules for cars and trucks.
Climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan, who first discovered in the 1970s the climate-altering impacts of certain carbon chemicals in the atmosphere and who has been a driving force to enact policies to curb global warming for…
Jacob Mays, an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, comments on a global energy crisis making gas prices soar in Europe.
The smallest and shallowest bodies of water exhibit the greatest variability of greenhouse gas emissions over time, according to a paper that could help improve the accuracy of climate models.
