
Jeff Tyson
@jtyson21
Sharing research, ideas & perspectives from @Cornell w/ focus on climate, sustainability & opinion. Dad, husband, lifelong learner. Formerly @wnpr @devex @npr.
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“These piles are going to grow every day,” says Chloe Ahmann CornellArts&Sciences, speaking about coal in South Baltimore, where coal dust covers "bicycles, porches, windowsills." & where "people wipe coal dust off their windows as a daily ritual." heatmap.news/economy/baltim… - Heatmap News

Check out my new Op-ed via The Hill on how Social Security claimed that I owe them $101,000 simply for working as a person with a #Disability. Big thanks to YTI Cornell Cornell ILR School Jeff Tyson and Damien Sharp for helping get my story out tinyurl.com/4kectxw4



In this op-ed for Scientific American, #CornellVet's Dr. Alistair Hayden (Cornell Public Health) argues that, with climate change making heat waves longer or more intense, FEMA must declare heat waves a disaster - and unleash the resources necessary to mitigate them. scientificamerican.com/article/heat-w…

“Birds are beautiful...They have such a diversity of plumage, such a diversity of behavior...They’re basically gems – gems of the sky.”-Jillian Ditner, biological illustrator & Bartels Science Illustration Program Coordinator Cornell Lab.Via The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com/Environment/20…

To help local emergency managers assess danger, Cornell researchers from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and Cornell CALS have created the Mortality Estimation Tool to map predicted, smoke-attributed mortality statistics in near-real time. news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…


"[Climate] is the work of this generation, but it’s also not so massive that it can’t be addressed the way humanity has addressed lots of other problems over the course of its history." Ben Furnas executive director The 2030 Project Cornell University Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability thisiscny.com/business/2024/…

It may seem like NASA is an unlikely candidate to help in food security, but through a partnership between the agency and Cornell AgriTech and Cornell CALS, innovative tools are being developed to help bolster disease detection in specialty crops. More at


Lawsuits like that against ExxonMobil show deception from companies "in the same way lawsuits against the tobacco industry were about the way they misrepresented connections between smoking and lung cancer.” - Leehi Yona Cornell Law School via Evan Bush NBC News nbcnews.com/science/enviro…


Natural variability in the climate system can amplify or counteract human-driven trends, potentially leading to more extreme outcomes than the models suggest. "How climate models could be underestimating drought," by Toby Ault of Emergent Climate Risk Lab - Cornell University. thebulletin.org/2024/12/how-cl…


Faculty expert opinion: Greeshma Gadikota, professor and director of the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group in Cornell Engineering, says tariffs on steel could unlock new ways of using the domestic supply of low-grade iron ore, curtailing emissions from overseas transport.


Cutting NIH funding isn’t how to defeat disease, it’s surrender, Dean Robert A. Harrington (Robert Harrington) and Dr. Theodore L. DeWeese of Johns Hopkins Medicine write in a Fox News opinion piece. Full story: fxn.ws/4kEkbkz
