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One of Georgia’s most plentiful assets might be a key to help the state combat global climate change.

The state is covered with trees—Georgia is almost 60% forested—and each tree has the ability to offset carbon that’s emitted into the atmosphere. But the amount of carbon, the cost of… Read Article

Some of the world’s most important feats of engineering come from natural formations.

Sand dunes are engineered to prevent erosion. Floodplains along rivers give them space to ebb and flow while protecting communities from flooding—and also filter out pollution and provide wildlife… Read Article

How you experience the outdoors goes beyond the present tense.

Whether you’re swatting mosquitos in your backyard or hiking through a national park, our relationship with nature is rooted in access, lived experience, personal connections and history. It relates to race, policies, power… Read Article

Smartphone apps that are marketed to support contact tracing are one component in stemming the spread of COVID-19. But by relying on a phone’s global positioning system, these apps may also be introducing unintended location errors affected by buildings or landscapes, according to a study by a… Read Article

When rural towns look for ideas to widen their economic base, tourism isn’t always the most obvious solution—especially during a pandemic.

But a new study by University of Georgia researchers offers a potential road map, connecting landscapes to preferences among motorcycle enthusiasts.… Read Article

A good day of fishing can mean different things to different people.

It goes beyond what you catch (or don’t). A successful day out on a lake or river is also affected by factors such as whether you want to fish from the shore or a boat or what kind of fish are stocked. Any fishery can be… Read Article

The dozen or so women gathered in the bright, wood-paneled room knew they had big plans in the works. But what they didn’t know was that they were making history.

Together—masked and staying physically distant—the women were the first class to experience the Woman’s Landowner Workshops, a… Read Article

New study investigates heavy rains, increased use with potential negative impacts.

The year began with record-breaking rainfall across Georgia, followed by a pandemic forcing millions to work and learn in their homes.

For residents with septic systems, it was a lot to… Read Article

The morning’s air felt thick. It wasn’t ideal.

As the students gathered into the wood-paneled classroom at the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway, Mark Melvin bit his lip. The plans that day called for their first hands-on prescribed burn, at a pie-shaped piece of land… Read Article

Dick Field pulls a dark green book from its shelf and cracks it open.

An art deco bookplate is pasted on the inside front cover, where, in black ink, is written the name of its former owner: B.F. Grant.

It’s one of several 1920s-era books in Field’s library—a collection that’s… Read Article