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Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and environmental biology, comments on a new study that suggests methane levels in the air are now 2.6 times higher than in pre-industrial times. 

George Hay, professor of law, says “Most of the time the remedies are 'don't do this anymore.' So, for example, in the early Google case, a lot turned on contracts between Google and Apple and other producers. And clearly what's going to happen, at the very least is, those contracts are going to have to be unwound.”

Article discusses research led by Charles Lynch, assistant professor of neuroscience in psychiatry, and Conor Liston, professor of psychiatry, at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Daniele Visioni, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, says that as climate catastrophes continue “people’s perceptions of how the climate is changing the urgency of the situation is mounting.” 

Laura Harrington, professor of entomology, discusses mosquito-borne illnesses.

Researchers from Weill Cornell identified a brain network that is nearly two times larger in the brains of people with depression.