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Two hands holding some soil

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New York growers will get a sustainable boost this planting season from the new Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Act – backed up by Cornell research – and signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
In the foreground, a red sign reads Climate Change Garden. In the background, two women tend to leafy plants in a garden bed.

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Of course, there has always been occasional mixing, as animals and underwater waves move through the lake. But global warming is driving a bigger wedge between Lake Tanganyika’s warm and cool water zones. As the surface warms at an accelerating...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
David Wolfe testifying before a Congressional Subcomittee

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David Wolfe, professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, told a congressional committee in a hearing on agricultural resiliency that climate change impacts have been more complex and severe than scientists had forecast three decades ago.