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We coordinate with the Cornell Office of Media Relations to distribute news releases and tip sheets for reporters and other entities. We also assist journalists who request information or interviews of CALS' personnel.

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Latest from the CALS Newsroom

Two researchers wearing safety goggles look at something on a computer

News

An interdisciplinary team of researchers determined that organic residues of plant oils are poorly preserved in calcareous soils from the Mediterranean, leading decades of archaeologists to likely misidentify olive oil in ceramic artifacts.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil
Birds eye view of a forest of tree with an AI symbol

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New grant funding will support eight research projects seeking to reduce AI’s energy use and integrate AI in environmental research.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
Meredith Holgerson, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, collects a sediment sample from Texas Hollow Pond in central New York.

News

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

  • New York State Water Resources Institute
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
Magnificent Riflebird

News

The color “ultrablack” has a variety of uses, including in cameras, solar panels and telescopes, but it’s difficult to produce and can appear less black when viewed at an angle. A Cornell lab has devised a simple method for making the elusive...

  • Lab of Ornithology