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“Climate change is operating as a headwind. And it’s really sort of slowing down the global agricultural productivity growth,” said Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, who teaches at Cornell University.
This piece references a bald eagle survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Lab of Ornithology in 2018 and 2019.
Drew Harvell, professor emeritus in ecology and evolutionary biology, says that breeding nearly extinct animals in captivity is going to be “part of our toolkit to handle some of the unexpected damage from climate change.”
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says the Supreme Court ruling will slow down the number of people placed in immigration proceedings in the short term and will give many people “a second chance to try to prove that they qualify for cancellation of removal and other forms of relief.”
“The details behind everything that happens in those burrows was basically unknown before,” says Charles Eldermire, leader for the Lab of Ornithology Bird Cams project.
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of law, writes this opinion piece about how President Biden can attract international students. "Biden’s election was a pivotal moment for international students. Universities are already seeing a spike in international student applications, a phenomenon coined 'the Biden bump.'"
ClimateTech is the new program Cornell and venture capital firm Chloe Capital launched to “recruit, educate, inspire, and support capitalization in Black, Indigenous, People of Color and women founders developing startups with clean tech innovations.”
House finch eye disease causes red, swollen, watery or crusty eyes. Afflicted birds can recover, but may die because they cannot see well enough to find food or avoid predators. The latest analyses, based on the observations of Project FeederWatch participants from eight Northeast states, addresses the long-term impact of the disease on house finch populations and points to the role of the finch immune system in the bird vs. bacteria battle.
Professor Beth Lyon writes, "If the U.S. Senate builds on the momentum generated by the House, after decades of false starts, legislation will finally reach the President’s desk that offers peace of mind and stability to hundreds of thousands of deserving individuals and the communities where they live and to which they contribute."
