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Cornell’s Climate Smart Farming program has added a fifth online tool – the New York State/Northeast Drought Atlas – to help farmers adapt to a warming world The atlas presents drought severity state-by-state, county-by-county, for the entire region...
Since 2005, AguaClara has built 14 gravity-powered, electricity-free surface water treatment plants in Honduras, with a 15th under construction at Zamorano University in Tegucigalpa These plants bring safe tap water to approximately 65,000 people in...
An innovation providing key clues to how humans might manage forests and cities to cool the planet is taking flight Cornell researchers are using drone technology to more accurately measure surface reflectivity on the landscape, a technological advance...
A record number of high school students from 40 countries and 500 cities around the world are taking college classes at Cornell’s Summer College this year But a handful of those who might benefit the most are from right down the road For the first time,...
Gender matters most to the 13 teams of two to three researchers each from 10 African countries who will participate in training on “Gender Responsive Cereal Grains Breeding” at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, Aug 7-16 In the joint...
Cornell’s Division of Nutrition is hosting the 4th annual WHO/Cochrane/Cornell University Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for Global Policy Making July 24 to Aug 4 This year’s participants include 29 experts from around the world, and...
My name is Lauren Johnson, and I am a member of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine class of 2020 After finishing my first year of vet school at the end of May, I packed my bags, boarded a plane, and flew more than 5,000 miles over 12 hours to the...
Oneida Lake, a kissing cousin to New York’s Finger Lakes, may soon get an environmental makeover due to another in a series of invasive species bringing havoc to the body’s ecosystem and disturbing its recreational waters Invasive round gobies,...
Men continue to be much more likely to earn a degree in STEM fields than women, despite efforts made over the last few decades New research from Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality(CSI) on fields of environmental study offers unexpected hope in closing...
Cornell chemists have uncovered a fresh role for nitric oxide that could send biochemical textbooks back for revision They have identified a critical step in the nitrification process, which is partly responsible for agricultural emissions of harmful nitrous...
After a century of markets dominated by a few types of wheat and white flour, ancient and heritage wheat varieties are making a comeback Restaurants and bakeries that promote organic and local agriculture have sprouted up across the country in the last decade,...