Environment Climate & Health
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...
Among more than 30 species of birds and mammals known to scavenge deer carcasses in New York state, bald eagles are the most vulnerable to lead poisoning from hunters’ ammunition and best bioindicator for ongoing monitoring of the hazard, new Cornell research...
Cornell’s first Global Grand Challenge continues this year as Einaudi's Migrations Program We also welcome three program directors We're excited to announce that Cornell's Migrations initiative is stepping into a new phase as the Migrations Program, part of the...
Unsheltered homelessness is highly visible, and presents social, political, health, and safety challenges This reality creates a conundrum: housing — access to stable, affordable housing and necessary social and medical services — is the only successful way to end...
Millions of Americans are endangered by extreme heat due to federal policies that steer billions of dollars away from the nation’s hottest regions At least a dozen government agencies oversee programs that ignore or minimize the threat of extreme heat as rising...
Proximity is a big factor in how viruses spread, as the world learned during the COVID pandemic Sharing a home or gathering in large groups poses a huge H5N1 risk, says Amandine Gamble, an infectious disease ecology expert at Cornell University’s College of...
