Tag: Environment
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As climate, disease links become clearer, study highlights need to forecast future shifts
Climate change is affecting the spread of infectious diseases worldwide, according to an international team…
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UGA to honor 2013 Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame inductees
The Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame will welcome two new inductees at a ceremony Sept.…
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Circle Gallery exhibition to focus on Sapelo Island greenhouse
The Circle Gallery in the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design will open…
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UGA’s Samantha Joye organizes rapid response to study Hercules blowout incident
University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye organized the first research effort immediately following the…
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Connections found between wetland cover, transmission rates of hemorrhagic disease
Ecologists at the University of Georgia have discovered complex and surprising relationships between land cover…
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Conference to highlight agricultural exports; early registration ends July 30
Exporting agricultural goods—which include forestry products—will take the spotlight Sept. 25-26 in Savannah as farmers…
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UGA professor awarded distinguished agri-scientist award
Michael P. Doyle, University of Georgia Regents Professor of Food Microbiology, has been awarded the…
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UGA to conduct cultural resource inventories of Bleckley County, Johnson County
From July 15 to July 26, a team of graduate students from the University of…
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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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UGA donates research sturgeon to Atlanta Community Food Bank, Tennessee Aquarium
A hundred California white sturgeon used in a University of Georgia swimming study could have…
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Georgia develops first nationally accredited environmental education program
The University of Georgia recently helped a state program—the Advanced Training for Environmental Education in…
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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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Forest industry leaders elected to UGA Center for Forest Business advisory committee
Two of the forest industry’s top leaders have been elected the chairman and vice-chairman of…
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Plants, goodbyes to be featured at UGA Trial Gardens annual open house
Plant lovers are invited to take one last walk around the Trial Gardens at 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 ecology students take second in NSF graduate education challenge
Dara Satterfield, Sarah Budischak and Sara Heisel, doctoral students in the University of Georgia Odum…
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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 Costa Rica wins sustainability award
The University of Georgia Costa Rica recently was honored by GoAbroad.com with the 2013 Innovation…
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Shepherd named inaugural UGA Athletic Association Professor in Social Sciences
Professor of geography and research meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd has been appointed the inaugural Athletic…
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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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UGA entomologists ask Georgians to send in their cicadas
After weeks of anticipation, insect watchers are getting the show of a lifetime as the…
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UGA Extension, state Department of Agriculture recognized for distance education
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension and the Georgia Department of Agriculture recently received international recognition…
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