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Wild bees play a critical but often overlooked role in ecosystems, quietly pollinating both agricultural crops and native plants. While honeybees tend to get most of the attention, the vast majority of bee species live solitary lives, with many of them nesting underground in soil habitats that are both easy to miss and easy to destroy.

As solar companies continue to target farms as prime real estate for their arrays, scientists at Cornell have turned their research to agrivoltaics — the method of combining agricultural production and solar panels on the same farmland space. WAMC's Capital Region Bureau Chief Dave Lucas discussed the effort with Matt Sturchio, a postdoctoral associate at Cornell’s Department of Natural Resources and the Environment.

The quartet, Darlingside, (named for the creative advice attributed to William Faulkner that in writing you must kill your darlings), is playing two sold…

Police say a Cornell University student was assaulted by a man who also used racial slurs. The Ithaca Journal says the attack happened at around 1:30 a.m.…

The daughter of the president of Herkimer County Community College is the focus of a murder investigation.37-year-old Colleen McColgin of the Tompkins…

Members of the Ithaca College faculty say they've lost confidence in President Tom Rochon.Results of a no confidence vote released Monday show that 78…

Following an incident Aug. 9 in which an out-of-uniform police officer ordered two unarmed African American teenagers to the ground at gunpoint during an…

Burlington VT and Ithaca NY are ranked in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s top ten list of Great Places to Live.Burlington ranked second and Ithaca is…