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Greenhouse growing grapes

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Climate change and wine grapes: Go, stay or change?

As the planet warms, wine-growing regions face an uncertain future. Should they double-down on what they grow or do something entirely different?

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
solar panels

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Renewable energy infrastructure is booming globally, driven by improved tech, rising oil prices and global energy instability. But large, utility-scale solar projects often raise community concerns about land-use changes. Researchers have...
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Agrivoltaics
  • Biodiversity
Young tree swallows beg for food from a parent who is foraging nearby.

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Warming temperatures cause tree swallows to nest up earlier than they once did, but early spring cold snaps can hinder nestlings’ growth and survival.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
River ecosystem

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A new Cornell-led project will create a global record that shows how river systems around the world have changed under human influence over the last 75 years.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
  • Water
monkeyflower poking out from rocks

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In response to extreme drought, scarlet monkeyflower populations rapidly evolved and recovered, providing a window into climate change adaptation.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Evolution

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