When UF graduate student Mirsada Serdarevic was walking on Gale Lemerand Drive, she noticed a substantial amount of trash in a creek that is home to about three or four gators.
An interactive beekeeping class will teach community members how to extract honey from backyard beehives.
As the sustainability movement gains traction, the medical field is looking toward implementing earth-conscious practices.
UF professors urged about 100 Gainesville residents Friday to consider ways to combat climate change.
For the sake of science, seven UF students plan to march on the nation’s capital.
With Gainesville residents protesting oil pipelines Tuesday, we here at the Alligator thought we’d offer some insight into what’s going on in our beautiful state.
Award-winning environmental journalist and author Cynthia Barnett will speak at the Headquarters branch of the Alachua County Library District from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
The 7th Annual Cinema Verde International Environmental Film and Arts Festival is coming to the Hippodrome State Theatre from Thursday to Sunday.
Rhinos, religion and gold rushes are just a few of the film topics at the Seventh Annual Cinema Verde International Environmental Film and Arts Festival.
It’s been three weeks since the governor of California, Jerry Brown, issued a state of emergency regarding the ongoing Aliso Canyon gas leak that has spewed up to 58,000 kilograms of methane per hour since Oct. 23. Without doing too much math, that equates to about two and a half months since the natural gas well released a trove of delightful job-creating and completely harmless vapors into the atmosphere before any declaration of emergency took place.
The effects of the health crisis currently unfolding in Flint, Michigan, will be felt for years to come. This is not a bold, overly negative prognosis: It is a tragic reality reinforced by science — or, rather, the lack thereof.
In 2006, former U.S. vice president and one-time presidential nominee Al Gore released a documentary and book called "An Inconvenient Truth." Both the film and the book framed climate change as the result of man-made greenhouse gases, all delivered by Gore’s amazing ability to make a PowerPoint presentation compelling. Although climate change has been studied since at least the 1930s, the success of Gore’s documentary propelled climate change to the forefront of people’s minds.
North Central Florida’s biggest lake is vanishing down a sinkhole.
These trees stand apart from the others.
President Barack Obama and his administration are buzzing about a new plan to help increase the population of honey bees and other pollinators in the U.S.
A first-of-its-kind mission to study the interior of the planet Mars is set to launch in 2016, and a UF professor is playing a critical role in the planning process.
One man wants to turn Gainesville into a bicycling hub.
In an effort to produce zero waste, UF’s Office of Sustainability and Physical Plant Division are working together to recycle paper towels from bathrooms around campus into compost.
In 2006, UF made a promise to reach zero waste by this year.
One day isn’t enough to celebrate the earth, so the UF Office of Sustainability is dedicating the whole month.
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