We provide opportunities for students.

Our students learn from and work with people and partners on campus and throughout the world. Together, we confront environment and sustainability challenges head-on and with confidence. We aim to be bold. We take heart in working together to sustain and restore healthy conditions that sustain people and the diverse wonders of our planet.

We span the resources of Cornell.

As a cross-college major, we are available to students in the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences. Five Cornell colleges are represented by faculty and courses associated with the major. Cornell programs and facilities throughout the U.S. and other countries further extend our reach beyond the Ithaca campus.

We work across the globe.

Our network of faculty, staff and alumni support our undergraduate students throughout their time on campus and beyond. Faculty and alumni provide connections with a broad range of local, regional, national and international off-campus organizations and institutions working together with common purpose.

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Campus partners
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Learning goals

Making a positive impact

Student experiences, alumni pathways, news and other environment and sustainability stories.

Fishermen cast their nets in the Amazon River.

News

Smaller fish offer better nutrition, lower environmental cost

Smaller fish species are more nutritious, lower in mercury and less susceptible to overfishing, a Cornell-led research team has found.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biodiversity
  • Ecosystems
a man stands in a cow barn wearing a methane sensor backpack

News

When you think about the science of dairy farming, you may think about cow genetics or feed formulation, but what about environmental stewardship? This includes things like manure management, cow comfort, and greenhouse gas reduction—all aspects...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Ruminant Center
  • Animal Science
Scientist overlooking cotton field in Arizona

News

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
  • Communication
Illustration of dogs sniffing near tree with spotted lantern fly on it

News

Growers and conservationists have a new weapon to detect invasive spotted lanternflies early and limit their spread: dogs trained to sniff out egg masses that overwinter in vineyards and forests.

  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Animals
  • Entomology
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News

A Cornell-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to organic materials.

  • Food Science
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources