Environment Climate & Health
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...
Households caught and consumed a far more diverse array of fish than they sold at market, which has important implications for how loss of biodiversity might affect people’s nutrition, especially for those with lower incomes The Cornell study is one of the first to...
In September 2020, Alistair Hayden’s house filled with smoke from the Bobcat Fire, one of the largest wildfires on record in Los Angeles County, which scorched nearly 116,000 acres “We were all watching – students and others – wondering whether the fire was...
Cornell researchers have created a web tool that estimates county-by-county mortality from wildfire smoke in real time, to help local emergency managers assess the magnitude of the danger The new Mortality Estimation Tool blends federal data from several sources and...
Heat waves are costly and kill more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined, but because FEMA doesn’t count them as disasters, communities miss out on important resources It is summer in the US, and heat waves have started to sweep across...
Small-scale fishers on Lake Victoria (Africa’s largest freshwater lake, shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) are drowning Safety issues such as storms, a lack of available life jackets, and a shortage of navigational equipment and rescue services are a major cause...
Fatal drownings are a big risk for small-scale fishers on Africa’s largest lake, with many of those deaths attributed to bad weather – conditions that are likely to worsen with climate change, according to a new study Lake Victoria – bordering Kenya, Tanzania...
Dr Alistair Hayden, assistant professor of practice in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, and a former division chief at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, has authored a policy memo on incorporating smoke waves into disaster policy...
