With the nicer weather approaching, more Geneseo residents and community members will be outdoors, and appreciating nature. With a recent award, Geneseo can now offer its community members even more nature to explore. The village of Geneseo has been “designated as a Tree City USA community by the National Arbor Day Foundation,” as of Jan. 22, 2026, as per a Geneseo community notice flyer posted on geneseony.org. 

The Geneseo Dance Ensemble (GDE) took the stage this past weekend with its latest production, “Rising to New Heights,” a performance highlighting “an evening of diverse, dynamic, and original dance works,” as noted on SUNY Geneseo’s webpage.

On Mar. 8, 2026 at 1 p.m. Peace Action Geneseo (PAG) hosted a Women’s March at the Veteran’s Memorial Park, located on the corner of 20A and Main Street.

With election day coming up on Mar. 18, 2026, a three-way race is underway for Geneseo mayor with incumbent Chris Ivers up for reelection. Making their bid for the position this election cycle are Republican candidate Brian Spindler and Village Trustee Eddie Lee, who is running independently.

Polar bears—one of the most important apex predators in the food chain—are facing population decline amid climate change and loss of habitat. According to the World Wildlife Fund, “The biggest threat to polar bears’ survival is climate change – a warmer Arctic destroys the habitat polar bears need to survive.” 

In the mid-1800s, the Floreana giant tortoise was believed to have gone extinct, according to the Galapagos Conservation Trust. Floreana Island was colonized in 1832 by Ecuador and with that came disruptions to the ecosystem of Floreana. Smithsonian Magazine details that many of the animals brought over by the colonizers posed a threat to the native species of the island, eventually outcompeting many of them. Scientific American reports that in the 2000s, however, it was revealed that a tortoise population found on Isabela Island were genetic descendents of the giant tortoises from Floreana. 

The recent death of 56-year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a disabled Muslim Rohingya refugee fleeing genocide in Myanmar, according to CNN, in Buffalo, New York has raised public scrutiny of the Buffalo Police Department and its collusion with immigration enforcement, having released Shah Alam into Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody despite legal status and a plea deal ensuring his exemption from immigration detainment.

 This month marks 39 years since the United States has first begun celebrating Women’s History Month every year in March.

The United States finds itself now deeply entwined in an intensifying conflict with Iran after a coordinated military campaign with Israel. The campaign is said to have targeted Iranian military infrastructure and political leadership, including the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Feb. 28, 2026. 

Mauritius Island, situated in the middle of the Indian Ocean, creates a habitat for more than 250 coral species, as documented by Nausicaá Ocean Magazine. These corals and hydrozoans—a species with some similarities to jellyfish, but which form coral-like colonies, according to the University of California Museum of Paleontology— “form reefs that shelter a quarter of the island’s marine life and provide food for fish and human populations,” per the Nausicaá Ocean Magazine.

For several years, NASA has been partnering with SpaceX, using their reusable rockets to put new astronauts in space, including the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon spacecraft. This continued when NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew launched into space and entered the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 14, following NASA’s “routine two-week quarantine.”

On Feb. 17, 2026, SUNY Geneseo announced it would be partnering with the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School. This is a move aimed to expand academic opportunity and reduce both the cost and time required to earn advanced degrees.

On Feb. 19, actor Eric Dane passed away from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) after announcing his diagnosis about a year ago. People Magazine released a statement from his family, saying, "He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world."

SUNY Geneseo has announced a partnership with Eastman Kodak Pharmaceutical Company, marked by a generous donation of 625,000 dollars to The Geneseo Foundation from Eastman Kodak, as per SUNY Geneseo’s news center on the college’s official website.

After months of American interventionism in the Caribbean that have resulted in U.S. control of Venezuelan oil following the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, Cuba’s oil access is now under tight control. With the U.S. government preventing oil from reaching the island nation, The New York Times has identified this as “the United States’ first effective blockade since the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

This past Friday, Feb. 13, SUNY Geneseo hosted its fourth annual Douglass Day celebration in the Milne Library Multipurpose Room. Douglass Day, honoring Frederick Douglass, has been officially celebrated in Geneseo since 2023.

Last month, Cassiopea andromeda, more commonly known as the upside-down jellyfish, were found to have similar sleep patterns to humans—but they do not have brains. Like humans, Cassiopea andromeda were shown to operate according to circadian rhythm, and have an increasing need to rest the longer they are awake. As Bec Crew explains in Australian Geographic, Cassiopea andromeda is “a one-of-a-kind creature that prefers to float arms-up, with its bell resting on the sea floor,” making it unique from other jellyfish.

In fall 2024, TFN reported that a French shipping company named Vela had raised 40 million euros (about 47.5 million USD) to begin designing a low-carbon cargo ship. According to CNN, this ship, the Neoliner Origin, could now launch in 2027. Vela was founded in 2022 with a goal of drastically reducing emissions from shipping.

After decades of being on the endangered species list, wood storks have finally recovered enough to be removed from the list, according to The Current. The Federal Register states the birds will officially be removed from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife on Mar. 12, 2026. 

Shortly after 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, gunshots disrupted the campus of South Carolina State University, fired in a student housing building, and leaving two deceased, NBC News reported. The two people fatally shot were not students at the university.