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For ecologist and conservation biologist Amanda Rodewald, migratory birds are emblematic of a world on the move. In one year, a single warbler may spend 80 days in boreal forests in Canada, 30 days in the United States resting and refueling during migration, and more than 200 days in Central America.

Shanjun Li, the Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, has been awarded a Rapid Response Fund grant from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and the Cornell Center for the Social Sciences to examine the economic and environmental consequences of COVID-19.

For Johannes Lehmann, serendipity, curiosity and collegial conversations on two continents have led to a pair of multidisciplinary research collaborations involving sound and soil – with inspiration and assistance from an artist.

In 2017, when interviewers asked Latino community members in San Antonio, Texas, about their top environmental concerns, the answers took researchers by surprise.

“Art history begins as a part of natural history — one with rich and complex notions about the relationship between art and the environment.”

To address the plastic environmental crisis, Cornell chemists have developed a new polymer with ample strength in a marine setting that is poised to degrade by ultraviolet radiation, according to research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.