Metro
UF professors discuss rising sea levels, climate change
By Maddie Harlow | Feb. 5, 2017UF professors urged about 100 Gainesville residents Friday to consider ways to combat climate change.
Environment
Metro
UF students to join future March for Science
By Jimena Tavel | Jan. 30, 2017For the sake of science, seven UF students plan to march on the nation’s capital.
Opinion
Stand up against environmental degradation
Sep. 14, 2016With 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.
Metro
UF professor, author to speak at Headquarters Library
By Anthony Nicotera | Feb. 18, 2016Award-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.
Metro
Global films come to Gainesville festival this weekend
By Brenna McKenna | Feb. 8, 2016The 7th Annual Cinema Verde International Environmental Film and Arts Festival is coming to the Hippodrome State Theatre from Thursday to Sunday.
The Avenue
Cinema festival places emphasis on environment, art
By Erica Pope | Feb. 3, 2016Rhinos, religion and gold rushes are just a few of the film topics at the Seventh Annual Cinema Verde International Environmental Film and Arts Festival.
Opinion
It's greed versus the planet
Jan. 25, 2016It’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.
Opinion
Editorial: Tragedy in Flint shows government at its worst
Jan. 19, 2016The 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.
Opinion
Editorial | While climate change is here to stay, deniers need to go away
Sep. 14, 2015In 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.
Metro
Sinkholes are drying out Orange Lake
By Lawrence Chan | June 29, 2015North Central Florida’s biggest lake is vanishing down a sinkhole.
University
Resident responds to tree removal at UF bat house
By Ansley Pentz | June 8, 2015These trees stand apart from the others.
Metro
Beekeepers buzz about new strategy to help save honey bees
By Dana Hatchett | June 1, 2015President 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.
News
Knowledge about interior of Mars is InSight
By Kyle Bennett | June 1, 2015A 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.
Metro
Bicycle shop open house hopes to encourage GNV cycling
By Chris Watkins | May 13, 2015One man wants to turn Gainesville into a bicycling hub.
University
UF composting paper towels in quest for zero waste
By Ariana Figueroa | Apr. 14, 2015In 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.
University
UF fails to reach zero waste goals but makes strides toward sustainability
By Hannah Morse | Apr. 13, 2015In 2006, UF made a promise to reach zero waste by this year.
University
UF Sustainability hosts events to celebrate Earth Month
By Shalla Galanos | Apr. 9, 2015One day isn’t enough to celebrate the earth, so the UF Office of Sustainability is dedicating the whole month.
University
Dear UF IFAS, withdraw your support of Plum Creek
Apr. 9, 2015Dear UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences,
Opinion
Can FEMA get Gov. Scott to believe in global warming?
Mar. 31, 2015Recently, Bryan Koon, the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, tried to discuss climate change at a Senate budget meeting. However, there was one stipulation he had to follow: He could not use the term “climate change.”
University
UF sustainability to recognize Water Conservation Month
By Mary Brooke Stubbs | Mar. 30, 2015In Florida, water is being taken out of the aquifers faster than it can be replenished.
