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2023 Newsmakers

Oct 1
It’s Time to Engineer the Sky
Sep 5
Biocredits Could Help Save the Earth. But a Market Is Some Way Off.
Sep 5
Seven of the Greenest College Campuses in the U.S.
Sep 5
What Is Green Hydrogen and Why Is It Touted as a Clean Fuel?
Sep 3
Flamingo Fallout: Iconic Pink Birds Showing Up All Over the East Coast After Idalia
Aug 30
MapLab: The Zoning Data Revolution is Here
Aug 28
‘Off-the-Charts Records’: Has Humanity Finally Broken the Climate?
Aug 25
CALS Offers New Interdisciplinary Minor in Digital Agriculture
Aug 25
North American Grassland Birds in Peril, Spurring All-Out Effort to Save Birds and Their Habitat
Aug 24
Cornell Professor: Solar Battery Risk ‘Manageable’
Aug 20
These Bees Have Been Mummified in Their Cocoons for 3,000 Years
Aug 16
The Dirty Work Of Building Clean Energy Is Dividing This Michigan Town
Aug 11
It’s Time to Treat Climate Change Like an On-The-Job Hazard
Aug 11
Air Charging Is Here. But How Safe is the Technology?
Aug 10
Biden Stuck Between 2 Priorities as UAW Confronts EVs
Aug 8
Earth Just Had Its Hottest Month Ever. How Six Cities Are Coping.
Aug 3
Swaths of the US are Living Through a Brutal Summer. It’s a Climate Wake-Up Call for Many
Jul 31
Pig Cooling Pads and Weather Forecasts for Cows are High-Tech Ways to Make Meat in a Warming World
Jul 31
Unions Launch Climate Jobs Washington
Jul 21
Climate Change is Hitting Menus, From Disappearing Salmon to Dying Chickens and Smoky Wines
Jul 19
A Vast Untapped Green Energy Source is Hiding Beneath Your Feet
Jul 14
There’s No Escaping Climate Change as Extreme Weather Events Abound
Jul 13
Meteorologists Say Earth Sizzled to a Global Heat Record in June and July Has Been Getting Hotter
Jul 13
The Exceedingly Low Odds of Vermont’s Flooding Disaster, Visualized
Jul 13
Floods, Fires and Deadly Heat are the Alarm Bells of a Planet on the Brink
Jul 6
Why a Sudden Surge of Broken Heat Records is Scaring Scientists
Jul 5
US Air Quality Map: Unhealthy Air in Seattle, Portland, Southern California Amid Wildfires, Fireworks
Jul 2
COVID Origin Debate is Distracting From What Matters Most: Preventing the Next Pandemic
Jun 30
Climate Change Will Reshape Global Supply Chains — It Can Reduce Welfare on Earth by 20%: Ivan Rudik
Jun 28
Cornell Professor Warns This is Only the Beginning: Wildfires to Increase In Canada, North America
Jun 26
Little by Little, a Bird Builds Its Nest
Jun 26
Biodiversity is a Key to Preventing Pandemics
Jun 20
Bird Populations Are in Meltdown
Jun 12
The Inflation Reduction Act Will Generate More Than 1 Million Wind and Solar Jobs by 2035
Jun 12
You Might Want to Think Twice About Clothing Brands That Push Rental, Resale, and Recycling
Jun 6
Preventing Pandemics by (Not) Seizing the Low-Hanging Fruit (Bat)
Jun 6
Why scientists have a hard time getting money to study the root causes of outbreaks
Jun 3
Robert Miller: We’re Losing the Battle to the Invasive Garlic Mustard. But Do We Need to Fight It?
May 29
The Important Role Played by Bees in Lawns and Gardens
May 26
Farmers Say Newer Migrants May Help Ease Labor Shortages But Only With Right Skillset
May 26
Ithaca Bets on Heat Pumps in Mobile Homes
May 24
Considering Biologicals? Do Your Homework
May 23
Why Scientists Have a Hard Time Getting Money to Study the Root Causes of Outbreaks
May 22
The Scientist and the Bats
May 22
Strange, Unpredictable, and Energizing: Dark Comedy as Climate Solution
May 18
Videos Show Purported Ivory-billed Woodpeckers as US Moves Toward Extinction Decision
May 10
Post-fire Pyro-diversity: Woodpeckers Guide Research for Wildfire Recovery and Conservation
May 9
This Is What Would Happen if Biden Ignores the Debt Ceiling and Calls McCarthy’s Bluff
May 9
Are Turmeric Supplements Safe and Good for Health?
May 8
Scientists Solve a Sea Urchin Murder Mystery
May 6
Cornell Scientists Invent Broccoli That Thrives in Steamy Central New York Summers – but Does It Taste Good?
May 5
No More Gas Stoves? New York Is First State to Ban Gas in New Buildings.
May 4
The Mystery Behind the Unique Chemistry of Earth’s Continents
May 4
The Most Deadly Creature on Earth Has Returned to New York State
May 3
7 Died in an Illinois Dust Storm Pileup – Will Climate Change Bring More Such Tragedies?
May 1
NY Bill Against Pesticides Explains Importance of Birds and the Bees
Apr 29
Extreme Heat Raises Child Malnutrition – Kids Must Be Protected From Such Lifelong Damage
Apr 27
Meet the Climate Hackers of Malawi
Apr 26
Chasing Carbon Zero
Apr 22
Earth Day: The best recipe for living in space borrows ideas from our planet
Apr 19
Mystery Solved: Scientists ID Caribbean Sea Urchin Killer
Apr 17
Study Explores What Will We Eat in a Circular Food System
Apr 15
Baby Cod Seem to be Drawn to the Lullaby of Wind Turbines
Apr 13
More Charging Stations Needed for NY, EPA Electric Vehicle Goals
Apr 12
Strong Momentum Marks 2030 Project’s Early Fundraising Results
Apr 1
Dogs Can Carry Mutant Flu Strains
Apr 1
A Grassroots Group Took on Amazon and Won. Then Came the Hard Part
Mar 28
Wind-Power Industry Predicts Rapid Growth, Just in Time for Biden’s Offshore Push
Mar 27
How Cleaning Up Pollution May Be Heating the Planet
Mar 25
Here’s Why US-Made Solar Panels Would Slash Emissions by 33%
Mar 22
The Singapore Economic Miracle and What We Can Learn From it
Mar 21
Jeff Bezos’ Earth Fund Announces $35 Million in New Grants to Climate Reporting and Sustainable Agriculture
Mar 18
What Does a Black Vulture Over Manhattan Mean for Climate Change?
Mar 18
Why Interstellar Travel Is Even Further Away Than You Think
Mar 18
Two Big Ideas for Preventing Another Banking Crisis
Mar 17
What to Know About Raccoon Dogs, Which May be Linked to Coronavirus’s Origin
Mar 15
Calamari Is a Climate Winner for Your Dinner Plate
Mar 15
Arctic Ice Is Getting Thinner By the Day—And Sea Life Is Suffering
Mar 15
Scientists Enhance Recyclability of Waste Plastic
Mar 13
Silicon Valley Will Still Need a Bank
Mar 13
A Human Migration to Space is NOT So Inevitable, Says New Research
Mar 13
A Town Put a Senior Center in Its High School, Offering a Model for an Aging Nation
Mar 13
Governments Vet Crucial UN Climate Science Report
Mar 7
Farmers Gain Key Insights From Manure Evaluation Studies
Mar 7
Is Hydrogen Really a Clean Enough Fuel to Tackle the Climate Crisis?
Mar 7
Pay-What-You-Can Markets Provide Produce for the Common Good
Mar 7
Cornell Study Finds Solar Panels Help Crops Grow & Crops Help Solar Panels Last Longer
Mar 4
The Race to Stop Starfish From Melting into Goo
Mar 3
This Game-Changing Tech That Charges EVs While They Drive Has Arrived in the US: ‘We Aim to Lead the Future’
Mar 3
Women in ‘Deconstruction’ Harvest Value, and Help One Another (Video)
Feb 28
Refrigerated ‘Queen Banks’ Could Help Save Honeybees
Feb 28
Ohio Train Derailment: Separating Fact From Fiction
Feb 27
Who Rules Earth? Wild Mammals Far Outweighed By Humans and Domestic Animals
Feb 27
The Next Deadly Pandemic Is Just a Forest Clearing Away. But We’re Not Even Trying to Prevent It.
Feb 22
Experts: No ‘Abnormalities’ From Ohio Train Derailment Detected So Far in New York
Feb 21
New York’s Record Warm Winter: Good for Sunbathing, Bad for Ski Slopes
Feb 20
NASA Is Mapping Duststorms From Space With This New High-Tech Device
Feb 19
Ongoing Study Tracks 19 Additional Moose Using GPS Collars
Feb 17
Water Crisis in West: Massive Reservoir Lake Powell Hits Historic Low Water Level
Feb 16
Warm Water Melts Weak Spots on Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ Say Scientists
Feb 16
Dyes Found in 90% of Foods Have Harmful Effect on Gut Function: Study
Feb 15
Is the US Prepared For a Possible Bird Flu Pandemic? What We Know.
Feb 14
Aggressive New York Housing Plan Borrows Ideas From Other States
Feb 13
The Start-Ups Betting on ‘Peecycling’
Feb 8
Global Wetland Loss Lower Than Previous Estimates: Study
Feb 7
The Cities Built to be Reusable
Feb 2
Hochul’s All-Electric Building Plan Would Ban Gas Stoves in New Houses, Not Existing Homes
Feb 1
Cow Burps Have a Big Climate Impact. Solving That Is Harder Than You’d Think
Feb 1
Race to Vaccinate Rare Wild Monkeys Gives Hope for Survival
Jan 30
AI: World Likely to Hit Key Warming Threshold in 10-12 Years
Jan 29
9 Diseases That Keep Epidemiologists Up At Night
Jan 26
Half Of Global GDP Relies on Nature–But It’s Being Wiped Out. Here’s the Business Case For Investing in Biodiversity
Jan 25
A Startup Is Turning Porta-Potties Into Sources Of Fertilizer
Jan 12
Protecting All Creatures, Great and Small—Around the Globe

2023 Cornell News

Sep 21
Cornell-EDF Projects to Study Extreme Urban Heat, Ag Sustainability
Sep 20
Cornell to Lead Carbon-Cutting Effort in Aluminum Recycling
Sep 19
Fungal Nutrient Sensing Could Shed Light on Obesity, Cancer
Sep 19
Ponds Release More Greenhouse Gas Than They Store
Sep 13
Researchers Commercialize Rare-Earth Tech With I-Corps Help
Sep 12
$8.7M to Vector-Borne Disease Center Funds Training, Evaluation
Sep 12
DOE Grant Funds Study of Forests in Changing Climate
Sep 11
DNA Breakthrough Detects Genetic Diversity of Invasive Fish
Sep 6
Ag Tech Can Cut Billions of Tons of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Aug 23
New Modeling Method Helps to Understand Extreme Heat Waves
Aug 16
Hummingbird Beak Points the Way to Future Micro Machine Design
Aug 15
School-Based Health Clinics Benefit Rural NYS Communities
Aug 9
Few in US Recognize Inequities of Climate Change
Aug 8
Cargill Joins Cornell-Led Partnership to Support Regenerative Ag in NY
Aug 4
Young African Leaders Find Inspiration, Confidence at Cornell
Jul 27
Imaging Shows How Solar-Powered Microbes Turn CO2 into Bioplastic
Jul 26
Q&A: What You Need to Know About Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth
Jul 20
Omega-3 Fatty Acids Promising for Maintaining Lung Health
Jul 18
Blamed for Fouling the Environment, Polyester May Help Save It
Jul 17
Bumblebee Research Sparks Rapid Industry Change
Jul 12
How Can We Realign Academic Research Priorities to Help Solve the World’s Sustainability Challenges?
Jul 12
Cornell to lead concrete decarbonization project
Jul 10
Unused Renewable Energy an Option for Powering NFT Trade
Jun 29
International Team Develops New Vaccine Distribution Model
Jun 22
Hummingbirds May Help Control Invasive Berry Pests
Jun 20
Wildfire Smoke Downwind Affects Health, Wealth and Mortality
Jun 15
The Grateful Matchmaker
Jun 8
Cornellian UN Climate Authors Warn of ‘Extreme’ Risk to People, Food Systems
Jun 8
Cornellian UN climate authors warn of ‘extreme’ risk to people, food systems
Jun 7
Students ‘Learning by Leading’ in the Cornell Botanic Gardens
Jun 6
Preventing pandemics by leaving bats alone
Jun 5
Pond Emission Measurements Improve Climate Predictions
May 25
Cornell Atkinson Awards $1.6M in 2023 Academic Venture Fund Grants
May 24
Red Sea Corals Threatened by Mass Sea Urchin Die-off, Israeli Researchers Say
May 24
Microbes Key to Sequestering Carbon in Soil
May 17
Pollinators Are Attracted to Humidity, Not Just Scent
May 17
Using the Internet of Things to Connect and Inspire
May 11
Upstate 2.0 Wins $1M NSF Award to Transform Economy
May 9
‘Phenomenal’ Dead & Co. Concert Awes a Grateful Crowd
May 9
$4.3M Grant to Develop Tech for the Farm of the Future
May 8
Drug Industry’s Carbon Impact Could Be Cut by Half
May 5
Vishal Gaur Named New Dean of Johnson School
May 5
Vishal Gaur named new dean of Johnson School
May 4
AI-CLIMATE Institute Aims to Curb Emissions, Boost Economy
May 3
Eastern Broccoli Project Develops Promising Variety
May 3
Lack of Local Benefits Fuels Opposition to Solar Farms
May 1
Upcycling Method Turns Textile Trash to Functional Coatings
May 1
Economist Co-edits PNAS Issue on the Value of Clean Water
Apr 26
Woodpecker Helps Managers Promote New Life in Burned Forests
Apr 24
Dark Comedy Can Lighten Up Fight Against Climate Change
Apr 24
Students’ Island Clean-Up Trip Inspires Multimedia Projects
Apr 21
Book Goes Underground to Find How Climate Change Shapes Stories
Apr 19
Massive Caribbean Sea Urchin Die-Off Caused by Parasite
Apr 13
Britney Schmidt Named One of Time’s 100 Most Influential People
Apr 12
Risky Strategy Helps Migratory Birds Offset Climate Change
Apr 12
Humans Need Earth-Like Ecosystem for Deep-Space Living
Apr 12
$9.9M Bezos Grant for Virtual Fencing Combats Climate Change
Apr 11
Critical Metal Needs Rise While Cars, Trucks Decarbonize
Apr 4
Cornell Research Supports U.S. Dairy’s Net Zero Initiative
Mar 30
Service-Learning Helps Students Help Communities
Mar 28
Cheers! Craft Brewery Patrons Value Tasting Room Ambience
Mar 24
Facing Floods, Non-White Homeowners Prepare, Protect Property
Mar 23
Sustainable Action Lectures Address Flooding, Environmental Justice
Mar 9
Returning Solar Panel Production to US Eases Climate Change
Mar 9
Partnership Seeks Greener Mining of Critical Minerals
Mar 8
Dead & Co. to Play Benefit at Barton Hall, Honoring Legendary ’77 Show
Mar 8
Grassroots Data is Vital for Reducing Deadly Bird-Window Strikes
Mar 1
Made in the Shade: Growing Crops At Solar Farms Yields Efficiency
Feb 23
To Promote Exercise, Planners Must Look Beyond Cities
Feb 22
Color Coding Aids Evaluation of New Solar Tech Materials
Feb 22
Cornell Students Help Tarrytown Envision Waterfront Future
Feb 21
Reid to Address Nitrogen Pollution With NSF CAREER Award
Feb 16
Canine Distemper Now Threatens Big Cats in Nepal
Feb 15
Food Coloring, Anti-Caking Nanoparticles May Affect Human Gut
Feb 13
Nature Near Home Associated With Well-Being During COVID
Feb 9
Cornell-Led Team Selected For NSF’s Convergence Accelerator
Feb 6
Wild Bumblebee Queens Lured and Killed in Commercial Hives
Feb 3
New Sustainable Tourism Program Charts Course For Travel’s Future
Feb 3
New NY Outcomes Fund Pays Farmers to Adopt Sustainable Practices
Feb 2
Cornell Atkinson Announces 2023 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Feb 1
Launch of ILR School’s Climate Jobs Institute Celebrated
Feb 1
Cross-campus Center Tackles Antimicrobial Resistance
Feb 1
Cornell, EDF Aim to Reduce Methane Output For India’s Dairies
Jan 25
ILR School’s Climate Jobs Institute Launches in New York City
Jan 18
Cornell to Help Boost US Supply Of Critical Energy Minerals
Jan 12
AI Improves Detail, Estimate of Urban Air Pollution
Jan 11
Ancient Farming Strategy Holds Promise For Climate Resilience
Jan 5
Electrochemistry Converts Carbon to Useful Molecules