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August 5, 2020

Global Development experts explore hunger, COVID-19 in journal Nature

As COVID-19 disrupts food systems around the world, a pivot to more agile and inclusive data collection and analysis is critical to avert widespread hunger, according to Cornell Global Development experts in a comment piece published Aug. 5 in...

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Agriculture
Food

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August 3, 2020

Benjamin Houlton named as the next Ronald P. Lynch Dean of CALS

Houlton’s five-year appointment, effective Oct. 1, has been approved by the Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and is pending ratification by the State University of New York Board of Trustees. He also has been...

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Climate Change

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July 27, 2020

New soil models may ease atmospheric CO2, climate change

In an article published July 27 in Nature Geoscience, Cornell’s Johannes Lehmann and others wrote that scientists should develop new models that more accurately reflect the carbon-storage processes beneath our feet, in order to effectively draw...