Cornell scientists and engineers, working with international teams, are seeing wind in high resolution. They are creating the world’s largest, most-detailed wind maps ever in the picturesque hills of Perdigão, Portugal. This research aims to find how wind and turbulence behave in intricate terrain. “It’s our moonshot,” said Sara C.…
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed a comprehensive environmental agreement May 11 among eight nations that adopted the first Arctic Invasive Alien Species (ARIAS) strategy and action plan, developed by representatives of those nations including the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future’s David Lodge. Meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, the…
For more than a year, as drought spread across the Northeast, agricultural fields went parched, crops withered, wells ran dry. During the worst drought since the 1960s, irrigated farms in the Northeast suffered crop losses of up to 35 percent; for unirrigated farms, field crops and pasturage losses hit as…
For breeders of cassava, a staple food for hundreds of millions in the tropics, producing improved varieties has been getting harder over time. A team at Cornell used genomic analysis of cassava varieties and wild relatives to make a diagnosis: Mutations have corroded the genome, producing many dysfunctional versions of…
State officials are embracing industrial hemp as a lucrative addition to New York agriculture as regulations are relaxed around a versatile plant with the potential to thrive in the state. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo convened the first-ever Industrial Hemp Summit on April 18 at the College of Agriculture and Life…
The average American goes through roughly 70 pounds of clothing each year, creating approximately 21 billion pounds of clothing sent to landfills – five percent of all landfill waste, according to the Council for Textile Recycling. A multidisciplinary Cornell design and research team, assembled to tackle the environmental problem of…
Ninety-eight Cornell graduate and professional students will travel to 47 countries over the next year with support from the Einaudi Center’s International Travel Grant Program. The grants provide travel money for students conducting short-term research or fieldwork or engaging in other academic activities outside the United States. Research topics range from opposition…
As part of its ongoing effort to advance and disseminate knowledge on equality of opportunity, the Center for the Study of Inequality will host the “Social Mobility in an Unequal World: Evidence and Policy Solutions” conference April 20-22. The conference is free, but RSVPs to inequality@cornell.edu are required. The conference will bring together university-based…
Michael Pollan, environmentalist and best-selling author, will present “Out of the Garden” at the 2017 Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture April 27 at 5 p.m. in Kennedy Hall’s Call Alumni Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed on CornellCast. For a quarter-century, Pollan has written…
The ability to routinely access enough nutritious and safe food and water affects people and communities worldwide. Whether looking at Upstate New York, the U.S., East Africa, or Asia, food security is a pervasive issue that requires attention—from a food systems perspective—to coordinate policy, programs, or interventions that ensure safe and sustainable…