If you look up at the sky on a clear day, chances are you’ll notice thin, white clouds following behind airplanes— also known as contrails.

As tropical forests experience chronic drying and more extreme droughts due to climate change, some plants are adapting by growing longer root systems to reach water deep within soils, according to a study published in November in New Phytologist. 

Cornell scientists have discovered a potentially transformative approach to manufacturing one of the world’s most widely used chemicals – hydrogen peroxide – using nothing more than sunlight, water and air.

New research shows how the combination of extreme climate events, sea-level rise and land subsidence could create larger and deeper floods in coastal cities in future. 

A sediment core from Arizona’s Stoneman Lake provides an archive of dust emissions and pollen records in the region that extends through multiple ice ages.

An international research team led by the University of Copenhagen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Nottingham has discovered how plant roots penetrate compacted soil by deploying a well-known engineering principle. 

In the warm summertime waters of Lake Erie, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, can proliferate out of control, creating algal blooms that produce toxins at a rate that can harm wildlife and human health.

When Meredith Holgerson arrived at Cornell in 2020, she began searching for the perfect ponds. 

A recent study from Earth and Planetary Science Letters is the first to directly link earthquakes to climate change-induced glacial melt. 

Climate change threatens agricultural production across sub-Saharan Africa, where most farmers rely on rainfall.