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For many students, internships offer valuable workplace experience. For Madison McCall, a 2022 Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY internship became the first step toward entering an agricultural engineering career. McCall, now a graduate of Clarkson...

A doctoral candidate and Semlitz Sustainability Fellow and his Colombian partners seek to protect birds and biodiversity in the Amazon via sustainable rubber tree agroforestry.

Across 37 counties, Cornell Cooperative Extension master gardeners are growing and evaluating select vegetables to find what grows best in New York state.

Stakeholder participation and input is necessary to establish breeding priorities, understand industry direction, and for grapevine selection trialing. Dr. Maddy Oravec, Assistant Professor of Grape Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, leads the...

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.

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

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 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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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.”

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.

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

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...

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.