Environment Climate & Health
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, Sirwatka worked with agencies and nonprofits on the ground to “connect policy with fields like urban planning to build more equitable and sustainable food systems.” He wanted to learn how to make broad impacts by focusing on environmental justice issues in the food system “in the most sustainable way possible.” “Many folks think of sustainability in terms of the environment alone,” he reflects, “but to me, sustainability is about resilience, and how organizations and…
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...
Wildfire smoke blankets swaths of the continent Heatwaves break historic records Diseases like dengue and malaria emerge and re-emerge To combat these threats, there is an urgent need to strengthen the public health workforce — and Cornell University’s Master of...
