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Faculty and staff from across Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell CALS) came together on March 2 to honor 49 awardees at the annual CALS Faculty and Staff Awards.

The Long Island Regional Clean Energy Hub offers residents and businesses free guidance and subsidies to reduce their energy use, transition to clean energy and lower their heating and electricity bills.

New York state farmers with solar leases say they’ll use the added revenue to invest in their farms, with many stating they don't plan to change their agricultural practices at all.

In June 2023, smoke from Canadian wildfires dampened birds’ vocalizations in New York state, with a particularly negative effect on already imperiled grassland birds.

Monarch butterflies and other pollinators are essential to ecosystems and agriculture, supporting the reproduction of flowering plants and the production of fruits and vegetables. But decades of habitat loss, pesticide use and the disappearance...

Growing climate-smart crops is half the battle. Consumers need to understand sustainability claims and, more importantly, be willing to pay a premium for them.

February 25, 2026 Awards Professor danah boyd was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, an honor recognizing the most promising early-career scholars in the United States and Canada. Awarded annually to...

Mycelium, the vegetative, root-like network of fungi, has the power to transform food waste into new, life-sustaining food.

Cornell researchers have developed an online module, running just over an hour in length, that can be offered as a way to instill concepts of critical thinking early in a student’s academic journey.

Researchers discovered electron transfer in electroactive bacteria is mediated by CymA proteins’ ability to synchronize and form a biomolecular condensate in the cell’s inner membrane.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has directed $1.1 million to support the new Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences New York Soil Health Climate Smart Agriculture Fund, aimed at working with farmers to promote healthy soils.

The New York State 4-H Livestock Ambassador Program recently offered an immersive, multi-day educational experience for youth participants, providing hands-on exposure to New York’s diverse livestock industries. The program began with a visit to...

Apple scab is one of the most economically devastating diseases facing apple growers in the Northeast. Managing it has long depended on regular applications of broad-spectrum synthetic multisite fungicides, but two new peer-reviewed studies from...

New research from the USDA Forest Service, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and University of New Mexico identifies where future high-severity fires threaten biodiversity hotspots in the western United States using observations from bird watchers and...

Ari Novy, Ph.D., a plant scientist, science educator, and leader in botanic-garden management, was named executive director of Cornell Botanic Gardens. He comes to Cornell from San Diego Botanic Gardens, where he served as president and CEO, and...

Ayshwarya Subramanian, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a winner of the Pilot Award.

Five Cornell faculty members are among 126 early-career researchers across North America who have won 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Eighty-three graduate students travelled internationally for fieldwork last summer with the support of research travel grants from the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Their work sent them to every continent except Antarctica and...

One of the most recent technologies for sequestering carbon, enhanced rock weathering could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission recently funded a Cornell DNRE and CBFS group for a new two-year project “Evaluating mysid abundance in Lake Michigan using two decades of fisheries acoustic data.” This project will involve DNRE graduate...