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The slight differences in depth and light in Mud Pond and Texas Hollow Pond led to surprising differences in carbon dioxide and methane emissions.

The findings could lead to aquatic plant management strategies that help mitigate the release of gases such as methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide.

Aquaculture expansion in the Amazon could improve nutrition and environmental outcomes, but it also poses risks, according to research in Nature Sustainability.

Fellows will spend the year developing a community-engaged course, project or publication, while also joining a network of scholars committed to advancing the university’s public engagement mission.

Lakes are among the most vital natural resources on Earth. While they hold a small percentage of the planet’s overall water supply, they provide most of the fresh water people depend on daily. A new five-year, $2.5 million grant from the...

Though human-made ponds both sequester and release greenhouse gases, when added up, they may be net emitters, according to two related studies by Cornell researchers.

Steve Grodsky, assistant professor of natural resources, and a multidisciplinary team of researchers, soon will learn how solar panels placed on top of water bodies can affect the biology of aquatic systems.

The smallest and shallowest bodies of water exhibit the greatest variability of greenhouse gas emissions over time, according to a paper that could help improve the accuracy of climate models.

Nearly everyone can identify a pond, but what, exactly, distinguishes it from a lake or a wetland? A new study co-led by Cornell offers the first data-driven, functional definition of a pond and evidence of ponds’ distinct ecological function...

Cornell Atkinson has awarded seed funding to nine interdisciplinary projects that address a range of sustainability topics.

Meredith Holgerson, assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology, is working with New York state to quantify the climate impact of ponds and wetlands, as part of the state’s efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

A new study of a southwestern Washington floodplain finds that most native species adapt well to the invading bullfrogs and sunfish by shifting their food sources and feeding strategies.

With this CAREER award, Meredith A. Holgerson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is studying how the strength of benthic-pelagic coupling influences ecosystem function in temperate ponds.

Three faculty at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) were among 11 Cornell assistant and associate professors who have recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Over the next five...

For 65 years, Cornell CALS has been a leader in biogeochemistry, an interdisciplinary field that studies elemental cycles through Earth’s air, land and water, and is critical to understanding climate change. The first journal in the field was founded by Professor Bob Howarth in 1984.