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Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, an economist at Cornell University, claims all the CO2 and global warming we have added to the atmosphere is harming plant growth and agricultural yields, and we are only keeping up because of better farm...

From Cornell Chronicle By David Nutt | October 1, 2018 Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future This graphic shows the decline of black carbon emissions from fire activity from 1700 to the present, contrasted with the...

Before the world anointed Manhattan the "city that never sleeps," the Lenape Indians knew it as Mannahatta, the "land of many hills." While their way of life has since vanished into the mists of antiquity, a new virtual reality...

The world's tallest Passive House building is steadily rising in New York City, and Inhabitat recently had a chance to check the revolutionary tower out for ourselves...

The world's tallest Passive House building is steadily rising in New York City, and Inhabitat recently had a chance to check the revolutionary tower out for ourselves...

The world's tallest Passive House building has been rising steadily in New York City, and Inhabitat recently had a chance to check the revolutionary tower out for ourselves...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new polymer technique that may transform the way water is purified around the world. Led by associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology Will Dichtel, the team...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new polymer technique that may transform the way water is purified around the world. Led by associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology Will Dichtel, the team...

A new report from Cornell University, the U.S Geological Survey and the University of Arizona warns that there's a 50% chance the southwest United States will experience a decade-long drought in the near feature. But that's...

In his 2014 State of the Union Address President Obama stated of coal seam gas: "if extracted safely, it's the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change." Many arguments...

10. University of California, Santa Barbara Forty-four of the buildings on campus at UC Santa Barbara are LEED certified and 47% of academic departments offer a class about sustainability, totaling 321 classes, with 217 faculty...

Like a scene out of Star Trek, imagine one day being able to create an entire meal with the push of a button. For astronauts headed to Mars, 3D printers could potentially be their mechanical chefs, thanks to technology pioneered...

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From the AGU Journal Highlights: Replacing coal with natural gas would reduce warming A debate has raged in the past couple of years as to whether natural gas is better or worse overall than coal and oil from a global …...

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