Registration is now open for Cornell University’s online Winter Session. Classes run Jan. 4–22, giving students the opportunity to explore an interest, fulfill a requirement, or earn credits before the spring semester.
Cornell Atkinson’s 2026 Postdoctoral Fellows seek to discover new antibiotics, uncover hidden corporate emissions data, and support indigenous communities’ environmental assessments of mining projects.
Birds play an outsized, underappreciated role in shaping Earth’s chemistry, distributing nutrients across oceans, forests and coral reefs and sustaining life far beyond the nest, according to a new scientific review.
Five Cornellians join 175 global experts to outline research priorities that can inform future national and regional climate assessments in a new special collection of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.
Sociologist Holly Jean Buck, Ph.D. ’17, a member of the University at Buffalo faculty, is one of 20 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowships, known as the “genius grants,” for her research on climate change and environmental policy.
Researchers proposed a novel way to manage the increased demand for electricity by data centers: a credit market that would allow centers that are facing required cutbacks to pay flexible energy users to take on their obligations when the grid is strained.
Amanda Rodewald, senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, says a change in enforcement of the Endangered Species Act follows similar patterns by the Trump Administration of weakening laws protecting animals.
A Cornell University Library exhibit, “Weathering the Storm,” which examines the intersection of the environment, labor and workwear, opens Oct. 8 at the ILR School’s Catherwood Library.
Through plants and personal stories, a new student-led exhibit at Cornell Botanic Gardens explores the concept that people live because the natural world lives.
