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Solar’s threat to NYS agriculture may be overstated

New York state farmers with solar leases say they’ll use the added revenue to invest in their farms, with many stating they don't plan to change their agricultural practices at all.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Agriculture
  • Solar
experimental flasks of flocculent pellets

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Mycelium, the vegetative, root-like network of fungi, has the power to transform food waste into new, life-sustaining food.

  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
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New research from the USDA Forest Service, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and University of New Mexico identifies where future high-severity fires threaten biodiversity hotspots in the western United States using observations from bird watchers and...

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate Change
Researchers have found that enhanced rock weathering – which uses rock dust to sequester carbon in soil - could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

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One of the most recent technologies for sequestering carbon, enhanced rock weathering could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change
Cropland map

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The new, high-resolution maps calculate global emissions from croplands by region, crop and source – enabling hyper-local mitigation.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture

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