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A network of staff and experts in Cornell Cooperative Extension offices across the state mobilize to help and share information after weather emergencies.

Faculty and staff from across Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell CALS) came together on March 4 to honor 30 awardees at the inaugural CALS Faculty and Staff Awards, held in the Statler Ballroom.

When wildfires draped smoke over New York this summer, nearly half of its counties lacked data on air quality. Cornell has led an effort to install sensors in places where there were none.

In 1975, New York officially recognized the brook trout as the state fish. A favorite of anglers and a symbol of the pristine upstate wilderness, this species also contributes to New York state’s annual $2 billion freshwater fishing industry...

Max Zhang, professor in Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will lead the federally funded effort this spring. The work is part of the new Civic Innovation Challenge, announced Feb. 17, an $11 million effort led by...

“[We deal with] everything from what to do with pets, to ‘I have mold in my basement because I've been flooded,’ to ‘I have ice dams building on my roof because of a four- or five-foot snow load,’ and on and on,” Tidball said in a recent episode...