Tag: Conservation
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Researchers say heirloom crop varieties hold secret of meeting global food demands
Across the globe, humans rely on fewer than a dozen plants to feed themselves and…
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Study identifies priorities for improving global conservation funding
A new University of Georgia study has identified the worst and best countries in the…
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Georgia Plant Conservation Alliance receives national award
The Georgia Plant Conservation Alliance, a network of organizations coordinated by the State Botanical Garden…
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UGA to host expanded twilight tour at its organic research farm July 11
University of Georgia organic and sustainable agriculture experts will host their second annual Organic Twilight…
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UGA to celebrate National Pollinator Week with Brunswick event
The University of Georgia Marine Extension Service and Georgia Sea Grant will celebrate National Pollinator…
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Social networks could help prevent disease outbreaks in endangered chimpanzees
Many think of social networks in terms of Facebook friends and Twitter followers, but for…
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UGA to host international conference on environmental contamination
On the afternoon of March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake spawned a massive tsunami off…
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Odum Environmental Grants awarded to 10 Athens-area school projects
The Eugene Odum Environmental Grants Program, which is administered by the University of Georgia Office…
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UGA’s Salty Dawg to retrieve data from under the sea
The University of Georgia will launch its first robotic submersible later this year, joining a…
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UGA students, faculty and staff receive sustainability awards
Four members of the University of Georgia community recently were recognized for their dedication to…
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UGA to acquire 15 acres of historic Wormsloe property in Savannah
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted April 17 to accept a gift…
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UGA Bug Dawgs to host ‘The Beers and the Bees’ April 18
The University of Georgia Bug Dawgs, a student group in the College of Agricultural and…
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2013 UGA Earth Week celebration to spotlight green living, careers
Each spring, the University of Georgia hosts UGA Earth Week to encourage sustainable living. The…
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UGA’s Chew Crew goats return to Tanyard Creek
The University of Georgia’s own semi-resident goat herd, the Tanyard Creek Chew Crew, has returned…
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UGA Cooperative Extension helps reinvigorate agriculture at Atlanta History Center
When the Atlanta History Center needed to learn a lifetime’s worth of historical farming skills…
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From scrap to soil amendment: Compost 101 offered at UGA
Compost 101, a University of Georgia class that will teach participants how to successfully transform…
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Short film by UGA ecology student to screen at Savannah film festival
A short film by Virginia Schutte, a doctoral student in the University of Georgia Odum…
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2013 EcoFocus Film Festival set for March 20-24 in Athens
The Artic documentary “Chasing Ice” will officially open the 2013 EcoFocus Film Festival March 21…
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UGA campus invited to ‘get caught green handed’ for RecycleMania competition
RecycleManiacs have returned to the University of Georgia to celebrate the 13th annual RecycleMania Tournament.…
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Tybee residents invited to participate in sea level rise, coastal flooding preparations
Tybee Island residents and municipal leaders will get an update on ways to plan for…
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UGA leads inaugural SEC Symposium on renewable energy
Experts from all of the Southeastern Conference’s 14 universities joined with representatives from industry and…
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UGA to host 2013 Georgia Water Resources Conference
The University of Georgia will host the 2013 Georgia Water Resources Conference April 10-11 at…
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Artist to lecture, perform on global water crisis
The University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Lamar Dodd School…
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EcoFocus Film Festival expands to Jekyll Island
For five years, the EcoFocus Film Festival has brought premiere environmental films to Athens. This…
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