Climate Change & Sustainability

Project Highlights

Diverse group of kids exploring nature

Building community resilience through civic ecology practices

A man holds a fish on a boat

Climate change and invasive mussels in New York lakes

hands hold black ashes

Compost-biochar mixtures improve waste management and nitrogen efficiency

Flooded fields

Reducing nitrogen runoff from farmland

Dairy cows in Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine Teaching Dairy Barn.

Improving the economic and environmental sustainability of dairy farms

Rows of tree surrounded by asphalt

Helping urban trees to adapt to climate change

Forest floor with broken branches

Enhancing forest health in a changing climate

Sapling with roots in a glass of water

Promoting sustainable landscapes through understanding tree root biology

Rows of broccoli in a field.

Optimizing tillage and cover crops for organic vegetable farms

Beans growing in a high tunnel

Vegetable variety improvement for high tunnel production

Aerial of large plots with different grasses

Sustainability of perennial bioenergy crops on marginal soils

Researchers inside with large map

Increasing applicability and performance of carbon sequestration method

A person holding a bee

Sustainable solutions to problems affecting bee health

Forest with big trees and saplings

Strategies for forest resilience in the face of environmental change

Water running over hands

Engineering enzymes to degrade microplastics in wastewater