Tag: Sustainability

Watershed UGA announces winners of Daylighting the Watershed design competition

Athens, Ga. — Watershed UGA, an interdisciplinary initiative to create a culture of sustainability focused…
Satellite data reveal serious decline in Georgia salt marsh health

Scientists at the University of Georgia’s Marine Institute at Sapelo Island have found that the…
UGA Skidaway Institute scientists to study role of sunlight on marine CO2 production

Scientists at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography have received a $527,050 grant…
UGA to get 19 new electric buses

The University of Georgia has been awarded $10 million from the state of Georgia to…
Study links 2015 melting Greenland ice to faster Arctic warming

A new study provides the first evidence that links melting ice in Greenland to a…
UGA Skidaway Institute studies nutrient levels in Georgia’s coastal estuaries

How much of a nutrient load is too much for Georgia’s coastal rivers and estuaries?…
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory to launch radionuclide outreach program

The University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory will begin working this summer with the…
Researchers find positive connection between wood duck’s reproduction, survival

Using long-term data and breeding history of female wood ducks, researchers at the University of…
UGA geneticist receives $1.1 million to study how plants will respond to climate change

Jill Anderson, an assistant professor of genetics in the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of…
Housing residents donate more than 70,000 pounds of material to local charities

On-campus University of Georgia residents donated an estimated 73,660 pounds of material to eight nonprofit…
UGA, Italian university partner for first-of-its-kind program in sustainable agriculture

To promote collaboration on some of the biggest challenges facing agriculture today, the University of…
Building on shells: UGA interdisciplinary study starts unraveling mysteries of Calusa kingdom

Centuries before modern countries such as Dubai and China started building islands, native peoples in…
Sustainable dyeing technology gives UGA win at international chemistry challenge

A team of scientists from the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences…
UGA researchers discover fate of melting glacial ice in Greenland

Over the past several decades, scientists have observed a significant increase in the melting of…
Scientists, including UGA researcher, discover new reef system at mouth of Amazon River

A new reef system has been found at the mouth of the Amazon River, the…
30 years after Chernobyl, UGA camera study reveals wildlife abundance in CEZ

Thirty years ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, became the site of…
Georgia 4-H turns to oysters, volunteers to combat erosion on Tybee Island

This summer, Georgia 4-H is recruiting an army of oysters to help ensure the future…
Combined effects of copper, climate change can be deadly for amphibians, research finds

Researchers at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory warn that the extinction of…
Watershed UGA launches campaign to ‘daylight’ campus streams

Most of the streams that run through the University of Georgia campus flow through culverts…
Trees vital to improving stream quality, UGA study finds

Want better streams? Plant some trees, according to a University of Georgia study.
Harnessing the sun: Students design solar power system for historic site along Georgia’s coast

A historic estate along the Georgia coast that traces its roots back more than three…
Ecotourism, natural resource conservation proposed as allies to protect natural landscapes

If environmentalists want to protect fragile ecosytems from landing in the hands of developers—in the…
Office of Sustainability awards grants to fund student projects

The University of Georgia Office of Sustainability has awarded $40,000 to fund 10 interdisciplinary student…
UGA ecologist finds another cause of antibiotic resistance

While the rapid emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has prompted the medical community, non-profit organizations, public…