Environment Climate & Health
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...
A $35 million gift will endow and name the Cornell K Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health to address key challenges at the intersection of wildlife health, domestic animal health, human health and livelihoods, and the environment that supports all life on...
Avery Sirwatka worked on farms, in greenhouses, in food distribution, and in food retail for years before first learning about ‘food systems’ in college as a framework for the complex interconnections between these sectors As an undergraduate in Buffalo, New York,...
Deer hunters were more likely to be swayed by social media messages about the potential risks of chronic wasting disease if they came from a source they believed aligned with their own views and values, according to a new study Chronic wasting disease – a...
Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) is a private liberal arts university in Ecuador, with a main campus in the high Andean mountains of Quito, a satellite campus in the Galapagos Islands, and a research station in the Amazonian lowlands USFQ is also one of...
Faculty members from the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health have discovered coronaviruses in wild carnivores that had never been reported in these species before The research, published in Journal of Virology, expands knowledge of coronaviruses’ diversity...
For Jeanne Moseley, teaching public health equity begins with conversations around humility Having spent decades working in public health and international development, she has learned that humility is key to understanding how systemic inequities vary by context,...
This installment features Dr Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist and assistant research professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Schuler works to conserve free-ranging species for...
A new method could be used by biologists to estimate the prevalence of disease in free-ranging wildlife and help determine how many samples are needed to detect a disease This is important because wildlife agencies often lack the financial and labor resources to...
Some 220 flamingos have been found dead in the province of Catamarca in northwestern Argentina due to an outbreak of avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, an official told local media Bird flu is a highly contagious and deadly viral disease that naturally...
While most bugs die in the winter, ticks are relatively impervious to the freezing temperatures — and as the climate warms, they are becoming increasingly active in winter months, experts warn The pestiferous little bloodsuckers just hunker down on cold days and...
