Brian Rahm, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute, comments on the devastating floods in the Northeast caused by Hurricane Ida.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

New York City

New York State

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Brian Rahm, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute and senior research associate with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, comments on the scrapping of a Trump administration rule that limited federal protections for streams, marshes and wetlands.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food & Agriculture

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Stephen Wicker says iPhones that can directly connect to the internet will greatly reduce the digital divide and increase competition in a marketplace currently dominated by the duopoly of cable and ADSL.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently announced a white-tailed deer in northwestern Pennsylvania, only five miles from the New York border, tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist and one of the top researchers regarding CWD, says this positive CWD case will require a thorough investigation to make sure it did not infect wild deer in New York.

Veterinary Medicine

New York State

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Maria Figueroa, director of labor and policy research at Cornell University’s Worker Institute, comments on Uber's formal recognition of British trade union GMB.

Industrial and Labor Relations

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The New York State Senate and Assembly will vote Wednesday on whether to extend the COVID-19 emergency moratorium on residential and commercial evictions which would allow New Yorkers four more months to access the $2.4 billion housing relief fund established in the state budget. William Niebel says the extension of the New York eviction moratorium is critical and the only way to ensure tenants are protected and landlords get paid.

Law, Government & Public Policy

New York State

Law School

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In the U.S. alone, the hard cider market has increased more than tenfold in the past decade and Gregory Peck, assistant professor of horticulture in Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been exploring ways to increase the quality and quantity of New York-grown cider apples.

Food & Agriculture

Agriculture and Life Sciences

New York State

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Russell Weaver, economic geographer and director of research at the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, says while the March jobs report is poised to show continued signs of economic recovery, New York state is still lagging behind the rest of the nation.

New York State

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Aaron Wightman, co-director of the Cornell Maple Program, weighs in on the current season, how climate change is impacting sap flow and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the New York maple industry.

Food & Agriculture

New York State

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Lara Skinner says the Biden administration’s goal to build a large offshore wind industry demonstrates his commitment to tackling climate change and creating high-quality jobs for Americans.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Industrial and Labor Relations

New York State

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