The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/environment/page/3/)
How do social conditions play a role in our rapidly changing environment? Prof. Shorna Allred, natural resources, focuses her research on conservation social science, in which she studies the social implications of climate change mitigation and resilience against natural disasters.
Borden Dairy Co., one of America’s oldest and largest dairy companies, on January 6, became the second major milk producer to file for bankruptcy in the last three months after Dean Foods, America’s largest milk producer, filed for bankruptcy in November. Borden Dairy says that tumbling milk consumption combined with the rising price of milk crippled them with debt. In addition to these two large bankruptcies in the dairy industry, more than 2,700 small-and-mid-size family dairy farms went out of business last year and 94,000 have stopped producing milk since 1992. Consumption has been dropping steadily, with overall sales falling by 13% in the last decade. It seems that many Americans are moving on from cow milk.
Thanks to research like Cornell Prof. K. Max Zhang’s, energy providers are starting to create contingency plans to more efficiently store and distribute energy in residential voltaic systems. In the context of sunny winter days, for example, a system would store excess energy in the midday and distribute it for use when traditional energy production methods can’t meet the demands on their own.
For the second time this semester, student groups will hold a strike for climate justice. Students will march at 11:30 a.m. this Friday on Ho Plaza in a display of frustration at what they see as the insufficient actions of leaders in the face of climate change.
After seven years of student activism to encourage the Board of Trustees to divest from fossil fuels, Climate Justice Cornell is escalating the fight by filing a complaint to New York Attorney General Letitia James to initiate an investigation into Cornell University’s continued investment in fossil fuels.
A.I. and machine learning algorithms could improve the way future hydropower dams are built by determining favorable locations for dam installation and ensuring maximum energy use and low carbon emissions.
When it comes to annual popularity, some courses tower above the rest — including BIOEE 1540: Introduction to Oceanography and HADM 4300: Introduction to Wines.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “People, Prosperity and the Planet” grant program has named Cornell University’s AguaClara student team as the recipient of a $15,000 grant to fund the development of a pump that can treat drinking water without the use of electricity.
Cornell students brought the universe to Cornell as they participated in astronomy-themed activities on Wednesday, April 25 as part of the People’s Climate Week on the Arts Quad.
Over two million tons of salt are mined annually from under Cayuga Lake. Now, an environmental group has sued the mining company over environmental concerns.