Earth News from the Chronicles

  This is terrific news:   This spring, the Athens campus will enjoy not only the familiar beauty of renewed life and vegetation as the season unfolds, but also the implementation of renewable energy through the UGA Solar Demonstration Project. The project will be installed on the roof of…

From North to South along Georgia's 100-mile-long coast, 14 islands of sand, beach ridge and maritime forest serve as a barrier between sea and land. Four of these are developed ( St. Simons, Tybee, Sea Island and Jekyll) and connected to the mainland by bridges. The rest are accessible only by…

And speaking of Dr. Shepherd, he was quoted on the New York Times Green blog this weekend, per how he answers questions related to the changing global climate: Climate scientists, like the rest of us, have friends and relatives who wonder what is happening. So I asked the scientists: When you see…

Very nice Q & A with the director of UGA's Atmosphereic Sciences program, Marshall Shepherd, on the University of Georgia homepage.  A professor in the department of geography, Shepherd discusses several personal and professional topics,  including his favorite courses and why? I…