New York State
Recent global events have underscored a pressing truth: our ever-expanding interactions with the natural world can lead to unforeseen health challenges At the juncture of urban development, climate change and health concerns, the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic raised...
Researchers at the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab are leading interagency efforts to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease in New York and in the United States CWD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a rare neurodegenerative disease affecting...
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,...
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of cases was determined by how many people were testing positive every day, using PCR tests While the tests themselves are considered highly accurate, there were limitations to this method, as not everybody had the same...
Since her days as a math major, Assistant Professor of Practice Dr Corinna Noel has been eager to apply her quantitative skills to real-world challenges She discovered epidemiology in graduate school and soon, she says, “I started using my epi skills to help solve...
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...
Preparing for firearm hunting season for white-tailed deer, Brian Bird visited a shooting range recently to sight in his rifle – recommended after an off-season, and necessary since he’s switching bullets, to a type he’s using for the first time in his several...
From June to October of this year, Canadian wildfires spread to the United States’s midwest and northeast regions, decreasing air quality to unhealthy levels across New York State and Tompkins County In response to the deadly wildfires, Cornell researchers and...
An analysis of beeswax in managed honeybee hives in New York finds a wide variety of insecticide, herbicide and fungicide residues, exposing current and future generations of bees to long-term toxicity The study, “Pesticide Contamination of Beeswax from Managed...
It’s not hard to remember the period of the pandemic when everything from tomato cages to seeds were hard to find And now Cornell researchers are supporting that anecdotal evidence with data Katie Fiorella, an assistant professor in the Department of Public and...
When wildfires draped heavy smoke over much of the state this summer, nearly half of all New York counties lacked real-time information to determine air quality Now, a Cornell researcher is leading an effort to install air-quality sensors in 28 upstate counties where...
