Environment Climate & Health
Despite the danger and death toll of heat-related disasters in the U.S., the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has never declared a heat wave an emergency. The reason is twofold: a lack of real-time data on the impacts of extreme heat, and a lack of clarity on how to mitigate those impacts.
Bird flu has crept uncomfortably close to home in recent months. Public health experts have detected nearly five dozen known infections of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in people in the U.S. Dairy farmers are approaching a full year of exposure to the virus in their herds. And more than 100 million birds in U.S. poultry farms have been lost to the pathogen or killed in attempts to stop its spread since February 2022. Meanwhile the type of H5N1 virus that has been spreading, known as clade 2.3.4.4b, has also infiltrated ecosystems around the world, wreaking devastation that has mostly gone overlooked.
Research from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and universities across the state have found manmade chemicals known as PFAS are being found in our ecosystem and hurt public health. “PFAS are a whole category of thousands of different types of chemicals and they’re known as forever chemicals because they are really hard to break down,” said Professor of Public Health at Cornell University Alistair Hayden. “We use them in many different processes, a lot of plastics manufacturing.”
Faculty from the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, in partnership with the University of Pretoria in South Africa, have received an NIH P20 grant to establish the Center for Transformative Infectious...
Our Master’s Program publishes an annual magazine to provide students, alumni, prospective students, donors, advisors, and friends with a beautiful annual summary of our work In this year’s magazine we focus on engagement To have the greatest impacts, we must...
Rocky and Ren Hazelman run a chicken farm in West Milford, NJ, about 10 miles south from the Jennings Creek wildfire along the state’s border with New York Their 2,000 chickens require about 150 gallons of water daily, and the couple usually has no trouble...
For the first time, scientists have tracked the dispersion of the Oropouche virus in the Brazilian Amazon region, an important first step to control future outbreaks of a disease with more than 100,000 reported cases since the 1960s The researchers followed a new...
Residents of Southside, a historically Black community that lies along Six Mile Creek in Ithaca, now live in an area recently recategorized as a “special hazard flood zone” by the Federal Emergency Management Agency “When we get weeks of rain, people’s...
Faculty and staff within Cornell’s Department of Public & Ecosystem Health have been funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce to help...
Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Dan Crowley from Cornell University, USA, and...
Better surveillance of marine mammals that wash up on beaches and in marshes will provide more accurate estimates of how many individuals of many species are dying and the causes of those deaths, according to a new study published Sept 4 in Marine Mammal Science In...
