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According to the National Wildlife Foundation (NWF), over the last 20 years there has been a harsh decline in the amount of time that young children spend outside This has a significant impact on the health of children’s bodies, minds and spirits “Our kids are...
With the number of older adults predicted to grow dramatically in the coming decades, industries from financial services to residential design are facing unprecedented challenges looming just around the corner Cornell recently offered some multidisciplinary...
As winter recedes and people and their pets start to take advantage of spring weather, a certain pest often comes front and center in the news of the North Eastern United States: the blacklegged tick, carrier of Lyme Disease Lyme borreliosis is the most common and...
After traveling through Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in January, examining climate change through the lens of another country, four Cornell students toured the halls of Congress in late March to tell legislators all about it “Society is facing huge problems with...
The ability to routinely access enough nutritious and safe food and water affects people and communities worldwide Whether looking at Upstate New York, the US, East Africa, or Asia, food security is a pervasive issue that requires attention—from a food...
More than 50 high school students from across New York state visited Cornell March 31-April 1 for the New York Youth Institute (NYYI), a program giving students the opportunity to engage with issues related to agriculture and food security at home and around the...
A trending Huffington Post article earlier this month discussed the enormous global impact of rabies in terms of human and animal health The article estimated that approximately 189 people die from rabies per day, primarily in developing countries However, although...
Farm to school programs are rapidly gaining popularity as public health nutrition interventions in the United States Today, over 42,000 schools (42 percent of schools) and 23 million students are engaged in farm to school programs in the United States, compared with...
Antibiotics do amazing things such as treating and curing bad bacterial infections like pneumonia, tuberculosis, blood poisoning, and gonorrhea, among many others But, over the last 30 years, we’ve seen that these infections are becoming harder to treat, and the...
Destructive nets, like these resting in boats on the shore of Lake Victoria, damage the environment by allowing fishermen - some of whom may be too sick to fish in more physically demanding and sustainable ways - to overfish the waters For decades, scientists...
As the global population grows and human innovations abound, the world becomes a smaller yet more complex place With sufficient resources, one can get to almost any point in the world in some 48 hours With this mobility, ideas and commerce move rapidly Along with...