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Awards fund innovations in digital agriculture
Projects ranging from a soil-swimming robot that can sense conditions in the root zone in real time to computational models that can predict produce spoilage received seed funds from the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture’s new Research Innovation Fund.
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Atkinson Academic Venture Fund awards $1.3M to 10 projects
The Atkinson Center is awarding more than $1.3 million in seed grants to support roughly a dozen interdisciplinary research collaborations at Cornell that address key sustainability challenges.
Rachel Hestrin and collaborators from Jimma University visit a facility built to conduct compost experiments in Ethiopia

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Biochar soaks up ammonia pollution, study shows
A Cornell-led study supported by the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future shows that biochar has great potential as a fertilizer because of its ability to soak up nitrogen, and its method for doing so.
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Atkinson Center postdoc fellows address global sustainability
The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future is welcoming five new postdoctoral fellows, who will study global food systems, health and energy transitions.
Johannes Lehmann speaks with extension officials in western Kenya about soil organic matter

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CO2 soil sequestration plan aims to relieve atmospheric warming
An international group of scientists and other professionals, co-led by a Cornell professor, have offered solutions for sequestering atmospheric carbon.
Zeyu Hu, Rajendra Shende, Frederick Dubee, and Vinita Apte holding toolkits at COP24

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Students, faculty shape global effort to cool a warming world
In a whirlwind of seminars, plenary sessions and corridor conversations, 17 Cornell students and six faculty attended COP24 in Katowice, Poland in December.

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CALS faculty among most cited researchers in the world

Seven faculty members in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences were named to the prestigious list of Highly Cited Researchers.

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Lehmann elected to Germany’s National Academy of Sciences

Johannes Lehmann, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Soil and Crop Sciences Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science, was elected in May to the German National Academy of Sciences.

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Opening pyrolysis kiln offers waste-to-reward reality
Waste could soon become a precious gem as Cornell’s new pyrolysis kiln – the largest of its kind at a U.S. university – opened May 24.
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Trash to treasure: Cornell’s pyrolysis kiln opens May 24
Cornell's new pyrolysis kiln opens May 24, when Johannes Lehmann, professor of soil science, will hold an open house 2-4 p.m., at the Leland Laboratory building.
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Cornell students meet, learn from COP23 world leaders
COP23 is the annual global United Nations gathering where countries grapple with climate change. Seven Cornell students seized a rare opportunity to mingle with key figures from leading non-governmental organizations, businesses and governments around the world.
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Art intervenes at Minns Garden
More than 70 students majoring in environmental and sustainability sciences turned Minns Garden into an ephemeral art gallery under the leadership of Philadelphia-based artist Marion Wilson.

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Art intervenes in Minns Garden

More than 70 Environmental and Sustainability Sciences (ESS) majors turned Minns Garden into an ephemeral art gallery Sept. 29, celebrating the biodiversity of the site.

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Researchers Discover High-Def Electron Pathways in Soil
Cornell scientists have discovered a new high-definition system that allows electrons to travel through soil farther and more efficiently than previously thought, according to Nature Communication, March 31.

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CALS Faculty Among the Most Cited Researchers in the World

The list compiled by Thomson Reuters names the top 1 percent of researchers in their fields for journal citations over the past decade.

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Soil Scientist Speaks on Land Degradation at COP22
In a presentation to global leaders battling climate change and feeding a burgeoning world population, Cornell's Dawit Solomon presented food security ideas to stave off the Earth's atmospheric warming.

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Grant to Aid Study of Microbes' Role in Soil Carbon Cycle

A project led by Cornell researchers to better understand soil microbes and their role in the carbon cycle has received a three-year, $3.59 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

  • Microbiology
  • Energy
  • Climate Change
A group of people stand in a field in Awassa, Ethiopia

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‘Climate-smart soils’ may help balance the carbon budget
While farm soil grows the world’s food and fiber, scientists are examining ways to use it to sequester carbon and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. “We can substantially reduce atmospheric carbon by using soil. We have the technology now to...

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Forage and Fuel: Feeding the Global Appetites

By the middle of this century, the global population is estimated to reach 9 billion. There will not be just more mouths to feed: Demand will grow for animal feed, for land on which to grow feed and food, and for energy to produce it all. What...

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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Can a charcoal-rich product called biochar boost agricultural yields and control pollution?
Can a charcoal-rich product called biochar boost agricultural yields and control pollution? Johannes Lehmann, Cornell University crop and soil professor and Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future fellow, explores the agricultural benefits and...