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The Office of Marketing and Communications services CALS faculty, staff and students by providing news and feature coverage of research, teaching and extension and outreach news. We write and edit a wide variety of content for the Cornell Chronicle as well as our college-wide publications, websites and social media platforms.

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Cattle on a pasture

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Dung beetles combat flies; insecticide overuse harms beetles
Anyone who has walked through a barn or cattle pasture in the summer knows that flies are a nuisance and even a health hazard. Face flies can spread diseases like pink eye to cattle, and horn flies – biting flies that live on cows and take up to...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Dairy
Farmers attend demonstration of laser weeding machine.

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Lasers match common herbicides at zapping East Coast weeds

The study found that the laser weeders worked as well as common herbicides in test plots of East Coast peas, beets and spinach.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
Hands wearing gloves picks up a pile of wood debris off the ground

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To slow global warming, bury wood debris

Researchers project that burying the wood debris from managed forests could reduce global warming up to 0.76 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Climate Change
A bobcat sniffs a trail camera mounted by Cornell researchers, in collaboration with New York state.

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Program seeks NYS volunteers to track wildlife with trail cameras

Snapshot NY aims to collect widespread data about animal populations throughout New York state - using thousands of trail cameras - and is engaging the public to aid the effort.

  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Animals
  • Nature