Two-dozen students lay still on the ground in an hour-long “die-in” in front of Day Hall Thursday to pressure the University to divest from fossil fuels.

Starting in Spring 2014, students will be able to travel to the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in Southern India for the semester to learn about biodiversity conservation, sustainable environments and livelihoods.

This spring, Cornell is partnering with Ithaca College on a project that will teach the elderly about the scientific study of and preservation of the local ecosystem.

In a victory for environmental activists at Cornell, students demanded the University divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry by the end of 2020. 

A recent report revealing that 96 percent of Cornellians surveyed support conservation practices also found that peer pressure is a key factor that influences their involvement.

At a debate over hydraulic fracturing on Thursday night at Cornell, six experts from various disciplines debated the practice’s implications for the environment and the economy in New York State and the U.S.

Later this month, the 18th Conference of the Parties will be held in Doha, Qatar. Like its previous 17 editions, COP 18 will see parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting to assess international progress in mitigating and adapting to the effects of anthropogenic climate change.

Tom Moore '13 urges us to take action and confront the human forces that have caused and continue to cause climate change.

Climate change is a pressing issue and needs to become a more prominent topic of conversation in politics.