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Students and faculty from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’  Department of Landscape Architecture and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy are helping the City of Ithaca assess and improve the city's park system.

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Students and faculty will help the city transform its parks and their care – with new landscaping features and a proposed maintenance plan and governance structure.

  • Landscape Architecture
Illustration of the Earth in green with photo of cows grazing on the left side and crops on the right side

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New study asserts that systematic change in food production and consumption requires real political capital and will.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Agriculture
Woman participates in a self guided tour at the Cornell Botanic Gardens

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Cornell Botanic Gardens has expanded its self-guided walking tours to Spanish and Mandarin, the two most spoken languages other than English among Cornell students and their families. The gardens partnered with two campus programs, where...

  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
permaculture classroom

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Cornell Garden-based Learning is offering a new online training course designed for K-12 educators looking for practical tools to teach about: Food systems Traditional indigenous ecological knowledge Waste-to-resource solutions The six-week...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Climate Change
Four individuals in red t-shirts stand in a classroom next to screens displaying "CLIMATE CHANGE."

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Relevance Communities across New York State are experiencing increasing temperatures, sea-level rise, and more frequent extreme weather events. Many local governments and residents want to respond but face barriers such as limited staffing...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
4-H’ers participate in the World of Water, where they conducted research across campus, including invasive species sampling and fishing in Beebe Lake.

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Middle and high school students from across New York state spent three days discovering potential career paths during the annual 4-H Career Explorations Conference, held June 30 to July 2 at Cornell.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York State Water Resources Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Teaching assistants scoop out the ice cream flavors and hand them to students

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A quiet revolution has been happening in the New York dairy industry over the last quarter century. Since a low production per cow ranking of 27 in 2004, New York dairy farmers have turned the tables and delivered many annual improvements in...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
A large group of people at the farm

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Nearly 80 farmers, commercial growers, home gardeners and professionals from allied regional agricultural organizations gathered on July 8th at Cornell's Willsboro Research Farm to learn about research aimed at improving agricultural production...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • PRO-DAIRY
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Anna Lovat ‘28, a Minnesota native and rising junior studying entomology at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, spent the summer connecting with local cut flower farmers in Madison County. Interning with Cornell...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
A woman holds two test tubes and smiles.

Field Note

What sparked your interest in agriculture? In high school, we did an environmental science program and there was a section on agriculture. As a part of this, we all had to participate in the World Food Prize, where we picked a country...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
Birds eye view of a farming town in China

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China’s Scientific Outlook on Development program, which tied local leaders’ job performance evaluations to environmental quality improvements, had negative impacts on the country's agricultural economy, researchers found.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
Provided Allison Anderson (right), of Pelham, New York, tables for the Village of Pelham Sustainability Advisory Board, which she helped resurrect as part of the Cornell Climate Stewards program.

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The Cornell Climate Stewards program gives New York state residents the tools and confidence to address the impacts of climate change in their communities.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Sea Grant NY
  • Climate Change
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Field Note

In this video, meet Matthew Norman-Ariztia, Ph.D. student in the Oravec Lab and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Matthew is helping shape the future of New York’s grape and wine industry by uncovering what growers and...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Illustration of a woman running on a smart phone

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Online content creator burnout is, in part, “unspeakable” – a product of a confluence of factors, including the informal nature of platform labor and the privileged status of creative work, seen by many as a “dream job.”

  • Communication
Tree swallow

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Tree swallows in the northern U.S. and Canada face the greatest risk from climate change despite responding to temperature the same way as tree swallows in the southern U.S.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
cows in a dairy barn

Report

The May 2026 Dairy Market Watch provides an overview of dairy market trends affecting producers in the Northeast Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO #1). Component production remained historically strong, with average butterfat and protein tests...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
a broccoli plant

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Expanding broccoli production on the East Coast and outside of California can help stabilize fresh produce supply chains that are vulnerable to water shortages.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Horticulture
CCE staff, summer interns all wearing lifejackets - like good boaters should.

Multimedia

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Planning to spend time on the water this summer? Before you launch, tune in to this episode of 'Extension Out Loud' featuring Megan Cochran, Great Lakes Outreach Coordinator with New York Sea Grant. In this episode, we discuss key steps to take...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Sea Grant NY
graphic of insects overlaying world map

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A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 to 14 million more species than people thought, with few of them discovered.

  • Entomology
  • Biodiversity
caribou running through a field

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The CCF provides catalytic seed funding to spark pioneering applied research to advance wildlife conservation solutions. The fund prioritizes initiatives that improve the health of free-ranging wildlife and/or solve environmental problems via a...

  • Animal Science
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Communication