Karl Czymmek returns to PRO-DAIRY as Dairy Climate Leadership specialist

News

PRO-DAIRY has hired Karl Czymmek for a newly created Dairy Climate Leadership specialist position. Czymmek will have statewide responsibilities in climate leadership and greenhouse gas reduction strategies for the dairy industry, contributing to...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
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Religion and climate change indifference: Linking the sacred to the social?

Report

Global Development Impact Brief #1 The Global Development Impact Brief series is designed to highlight Global Development’s work across disciplines, issues, and geographies in order to give readers insights into how we are advancing development...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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New course connects climate change to students’ favorite foods

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That concept was the basis for a new course offered for the first time in fall 2023: Using the Power of Food to Confront Climate Change. The one-credit Learning Where You Live course will be offered again this semester . “I think food has power...
  • Climate Change
  • Food
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NIH-funded initiative to study health disparities among rural youth in NY

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The project, "School-Based Health Centers - An approach to address health disparities among rural youth” is led by Sharon Tennyson , professor of public policy and economics; Mildred Warner , professor of city and regional planning and global...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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RANA Prize awardee explores generational renewal in Indonesian agriculture

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Made Adityanandana, a Ph.D. student in development studies whose research examines agrarian transformation and food security, earned the 2024 Ronny Adhikarya Niche Award (RANA) Prize, the Department of Global Development announced today. The...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Fabian Gutierrez-Oviedo: Unleashing the power of dietary fats

Field Note

Fabian Gutierrez-Oviedo is originally from Colombia where he completed his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tolima. He joined the Cornell Animal Science Department as a graduate student in Fall 2021. At the Joseph McFadden lab...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Dairy
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Most Adirondack lakes will likely become unsuitable for trout

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Climate warming and lake browning – when dissolved organic matter turns the water tea-brown – are making the bottom of most lakes in the Adirondacks unlivable for cold water species such as trout, salmon and whitefish during the summer.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Water
  • Natural Resources
  • Ecosystems
  • Fish
Stephen Jane sits in a boat deploys a sensor in an Adirondack lake