Ariel Ortiz-Bobea says there is no greater threat to our food supply than climate change. He has been appointed to a USDA advisory panel where he will get to shape policy that leads to solutions.
Smart thermostats may be falling into a dumb trap. While these devices save homeowners money, Cornell engineers found they may be prompting unintentional energy spikes on the grid.
As sea levels rise over the next decades for low-lying Hudson River towns, Cornell landscape architecture students offered ideas for coping with climate change and embracing the water.
Climate scientist Flavio Lehner comments on newly proposed climate change legislation from the European Union that would include a tax on aviation fuel, a carbon border tariff, emission limits for cars and more.
John Tobin, an expert on environmental and energy economics, comments on the world’s first wildlife conservation bond, which will be sold by the World Bank this year.
The Biden administration is forging ahead with plans to lease federal waters — stretching nearly the entire coastline — to wind power developers. Cornell University researchers are engaged in multiple aspects of this story.
Scientists have discovered that a parasite is behind a severe die-off of long-spined sea urchins across the Caribbean Sea, which has had devastating consequences for coral reefs and surrounding marine ecosystems.
Cornell received the grant to continue efforts to monitor and research the lower part of the food web, particularly zooplankton like Mysis and benthic invertebrates.
