Environment Climate & Health
As FAS gets ready to officially kick off its Day One 2025 effort and looks back to the origins of Day One, it’s essential to also recognize the important policy innovations our community surfaced after that initial tranche of memos It’s also useful to reflect on...
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday on whether laws limiting homelessness are unconstitutional because they punish people for being unhoused The case is about laws in a small city in Oregon, but the outcome could reshape policies nationwide for years to...
In 2023, the Federation of American Scientists engaged 85+ experts in conversations around federal policies needed to address extreme heat, yielding over 100 recommendations to address extreme heat’s impacts and build community resilience These recommendations...
A Cornell-led team has received a 32-million-dollar grant to study the effects of climate change on child malnutrition in Zimbabwe Laura Smith ’07, PhD ’16, assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, is project lead on the Wellcome...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
