A fresh look at China’s energy policy shows mixed results

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Cornell researchers and their colleagues have created a new, comprehensive data set of China’s 2,656 energy-related policies operating in 30 provinces – and found they cancel each other out when it comes to energy consumption.
Downtown Shanghai at night

Mahowald to Congress: Act now to arrest climate change

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Cornell professor Natalie Mahowald offered straightforward and hopeful testimony on Earth’s warming atmosphere Feb. 13 in a three-hour hearing on climate change before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
Natalie Mahowald

NY’s ag economy faces low profits, big risks

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The outlook for New York state’s farm economy is steady, with farm incomes likely to remain relatively low for a second straight year, according to Jennifer Ifft, assistant professor of applied economics and management.
Jennifer Ifft speaking at conference

Cornell creates multicollege Center for Immunology

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Building on Cornell’s decades of fundamental and comparative research in the immunological sciences, Provost Michael Kotlikoff has announced the creation of a new Cornell Center for Immunology.
Gary Koretzky posing on Cornell's Campus

Extension podcast breaks down impact of 2018 Farm Bill

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Season 3 of Cornell Cooperative Extension’s “Extension Out Loud” podcast series kicks off by unpacking what the 2018 Farm Bill means for New York state farmers and agricultural stakeholders.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
workers on a hemp farm

Once-abundant sea stars imperiled by disease along West Coast

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Warming oceans and an infectious wasting disease has devastated populations of large sunflower sea stars once abundant along the West Coast of North America, according to new research in Science Advances.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
  • Organisms
  • Disease
  • Climate Change
  • Ecosystems
  • Water
  • Planet
  • Biology
  • Biodiversity
  • Plants
  • Fish
Before and after photo showing decline of large sunflower sea stars

AI adjusts for gaps in citizen science data

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Citizen science databases can be inconsistent, but Cornell researchers have developed a deep learning model that effectively corrects for location biases, leading to more reliable predictions.
Heat maps showing bird observations in New York

Program advances art of team building around the world

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The Cornell Alliance for Science’s Global Leadership Fellows program teaches teams how to function across differences, so that workers can thrive in a culture of trust and respect.
  • Global Development Section
staff at the Kenya Children’s Science Center gather after workshop

Cooperative Extension takes its message to Albany

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Executive directors from Cornell Cooperative Extension county associations from across the state traveled to Albany Jan. 22 to meet with senators and Assembly members from their respective districts.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Donna Lupardo, Richard Ball and Kevin Jordan sample products at the Taste NY table