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March 26, 2024

While world public health agencies are focused on how to react to the next pandemic once it has started, a new plan proposes using ecological perspectives to prevent disease outbreaks before they happen, according to a paper published March 26 in Nature...

March 25, 2024

Recent advances in technology have allowed scientists to gather larger quantities of acoustic data from locations more remote than ever before As a result, the study of animal sounds can be used to inform species or habitat conservation and natural resource management...

March 20, 2024

Although we often think of museums as hosting classes in art history or archaeology, the Johnson Museum education specialists work with classes from many different fields including STEM and social sciences Close observation, consideration of perspectives and cultural...

March 12, 2024

Prioritizing Smoke Hazards in Wildfire Policy Wildfires have increased dramatically in recent years, in part due to climate change While more than 90% of wildfire-attributable deaths are due to smoke, less than 1% of wildfire funding goes to mitigating smoke...

March 5, 2024

Having grown up in Chennai, a city on the southeast coast of India, Shreya Chitnavis felt “right at home” when she stepped off the plane to begin a summer internship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia—another humid, coastal city “India and Cambodia have a lot of...

March 5, 2024

A study of more than 5,000 salmonella bacteria isolated over 15 years from dairy cattle samples in the Northeast reveals a significant increase in resistance to the antimicrobial medications ampicillin, florfenicol and ceftiofur Analyzing data derived from bovine...

March 1, 2024

When observing a hoard of golden-backed frogs at a roadside pond in Karnataka, India, a group of naturalists noticed something odd about one of the amphibians — the animal had a tiny mushroom sprouting out of its side How the seemingly healthy frog came to grow...

February 28, 2024

Researchers at the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab are leading interagency efforts to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease in New York and in the United States CWD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a rare neurodegenerative disease affecting...

February 26, 2024

Mosquito Control Policy Governance With anthropogenic climate change, vector-borne diseases are moving into new habitats Understanding how and why governments respond to vector-borne diseases differently is critical to preventing disease outbreaks, morbidity, and...

February 23, 2024

The Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has recently welcomed many new faculty members to our academic departments, each one bringing a unique set of skills and experience that enriches our college every day In this Q&A series, you'll get to know...

February 22, 2024

The Ithaca Green New Deal was adopted as a resolution in June 2019, committing the city to carbon neutrality across the community by 2030 Almost half of the city’s emissions are transportation related “Transportation is a hard nut to crack,” notes Rebecca Evans,...

February 20, 2024

A new kind of death is coming to Antarctica, scientists fear The harsh environment is full of everyday heartbreak: predation, starvation, chicks that are lost at sea when their icy shoreline melts away Now a novel pathogen threatens to rip through colonies of marine...