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Provided Allison Anderson (right), of Pelham, New York, tables for the Village of Pelham Sustainability Advisory Board, which she helped resurrect as part of the Cornell Climate Stewards program.

News

The Cornell Climate Stewards program gives New York state residents the tools and confidence to address the impacts of climate change in their communities.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Sea Grant NY
  • Climate Change
Matthew

Field Note

In this video, meet Matthew Norman-Ariztia, Ph.D. student in the Oravec Lab and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Matthew is helping shape the future of New York’s grape and wine industry by uncovering what growers and...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Illustration of a woman running on a smart phone

News

Online content creator burnout is, in part, “unspeakable” – a product of a confluence of factors, including the informal nature of platform labor and the privileged status of creative work, seen by many as a “dream job.”

  • Communication
Tree swallow

News

Tree swallows in the northern U.S. and Canada face the greatest risk from climate change despite responding to temperature the same way as tree swallows in the southern U.S.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
cows in a dairy barn

Report

The May 2026 Dairy Market Watch provides an overview of dairy market trends affecting producers in the Northeast Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO #1). Component production remained historically strong, with average butterfat and protein tests...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
a broccoli plant

News

Expanding broccoli production on the East Coast and outside of California can help stabilize fresh produce supply chains that are vulnerable to water shortages.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Horticulture
CCE staff, summer interns all wearing lifejackets - like good boaters should.

Multimedia

News

Planning to spend time on the water this summer? Before you launch, tune in to this episode of 'Extension Out Loud' featuring Megan Cochran, Great Lakes Outreach Coordinator with New York Sea Grant. In this episode, we discuss key steps to take...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Sea Grant NY
graphic of insects overlaying world map

News

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 to 14 million more species than people thought, with few of them discovered.

  • Entomology
  • Biodiversity
caribou running through a field

News

The CCF provides catalytic seed funding to spark pioneering applied research to advance wildlife conservation solutions. The fund prioritizes initiatives that improve the health of free-ranging wildlife and/or solve environmental problems via a...

  • Animal Science
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Communication
McGraw

News

Doctoral students Divyanth Loganathan Girija and Sumit Sharma were selected for the 2026-2029 Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Fellows Program.

  • Animal Science
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
a young pine tree sprouts from the forest floor

News

A new ecological discovery – that global warming is slowing tree growth – means current climate predictions could overestimate forests’ potential for carbon storage by as much as 30%.

  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Climate Change

Report

Relevance Urban agriculture plays an increasingly important role in New York State’s food system, particularly in New York City where growers operate on limited land and serve diverse markets. Producers must identify crop varieties that perform...

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
group of people standing outside Atkinson building

News

Cornell Atkinson hosted its first executive education program – the Resilient Futures Leadership Program: Financing Sustainable Agriculture – with partner Field to Market. The successful program will be offered twice more over the next two years...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Agriculture
  • Food
Mark Sorrells in front of small grains field

Spotlight

For 12,000 years, wheat has been the bread of life; its discovery sparked the beginnings of agriculture, which enabled human flourishing across the globe. For farmers in New York’s humid climate, growing small grains like wheat, oats, barley and...
  • Campus Area Farms
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
A large green tractor with a manure spreader stands in a green field, surrounded by rolling hills and a partly cloudy sky.

Report

Relevance Farmers across New York face rising input costs, labor shortages, and increasing environmental regulations that affect profitability. Small, dispersed fields and limited access to custom services can slow adoption of cost-saving...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
A team of Cornell students work on a prototype of their weed-killing robot

News

A team of Cornell students bested the competition with their invention: an autonomous robot that kills weeds with electricity.

  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Agriculture
Dairy cow in a field

News

Heat stress on dairy cows not only decreases the amount of milk produced but also the fat and protein content, doubling the economic losses.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Animals
  • Climate Change
Two people work with scientific equipment on a desk.

News

On-farm research is a valuable tool for New York farmers. It happens in real-time on farm fields that are actively being cropped, producing practical results that can be applied in future growing seasons. It fosters two-way learning among...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Crops
Cornell doctoral student Isabella Marie Errigo and Indigenous partners collect eDNA samples from a remote river in the Ecuadorian Amazon, helping communities assess aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem health across a range of environmental conditions.

News

A Cornell graduate student and indigenous Ecuadorian partners are sampling eDNA in Amazonian riverways to understand how gold mining and other human disturbances impact aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem health.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Biodiversity
Drone in apple orchard

News

Thirteen Cornell students will spend the summer advancing new technologies for agriculture after receiving 2026 Research Innovation Fund awards from the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture.