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Visit our pages to learn about invasive pests (Asian Longhorn Beetle)...

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and invasive plants (Garlic Mustard).

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Find resources for building & maintaining your pond.

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Learn about environmental regulations that affect you...

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ways to manage your woods and other resources...

and so much more!

Environment

We engage with the community to solve and respond to key environmental challenges, reduce and make more equitable our collective use of the Earth's resources, and inspire respect for natural systems and our reliance on them.

Blue-Green Algae

A harmful algal bloom is excess growth of cyanobacteria (more commonly called blue-green algae) that produces toxins. Learn to protect yourself and your pets.

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EV Owner Experiences

Learn from their personal stories how others have made the decision to switch to electric vehicles, from test drives, to renting or buying an EV!

Microplastics

Microplastics are so small they slip through water filtration systems and end up in our waterways. Learn more about them here.

Garlic Mustard

Garlic mustard is one of very few non-native plants to be able to successfully invade forest understories.

Climate Change

Links to a videos, fact sheets, definitions and other resources on climate change

Japanese Knotweed

This bamboo-like plant is shade-tolerant and grows from 3 to 15 feet tall, in disturbed areas, often near water sources.

Contact

Sharon Anderson
Environment Team Leader
ska2@cornell.edu
(607) 272-2292 ext. 156

Last updated July 17, 2020

Environment

2020 Advisory Committee

Environmental Issues Program

Allison Morill Chatrchyan

Don't Move Firewood!

Firewood Transport Rules were revised August 2012 to improve regulatory compliance and enforcement. The existence of this regulation helps prevent firewood infested with invasive insects such as emerald ash borer and Asian longhorned beetle from being transported throughout the state, destroying trees from one place to another.

Food Waste Recycling

If you don't compost at home but want to keep food waste out of our landfill, Tompkins County Solid Waste now offers drop-off locations in Ithaca, Dryden, Lansing and Trumansburg where you can drop your food scraps for composting. Learn DETAILS about locations, how to prepare your scraps, and what food waste is accepted.