In a community surrounded by a network of rivers and marshes that segue to the ocean — and where streets are prone to flooding after even a moderate rainstorm — it’s difficult to imagine having a problem with the water supply.
| February 23, 2010
The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) has received a major grant to study the effects of climate change on Arctic permafrost, and how those effects could alter the entire ocean food chain.
| December 08, 2009
If you get less sand in your car after a trip to the beach on Tybee, be sure to thank one of the students from SCAD professor Verena Paepcke–Hjeltness’ Sustainable Design class — because they found a way to save the beachside showers.
| December 01, 2009
It's been two years since the Chatham County Commission declared its intention to become the "Greenest County in Georgia." While the rate of progress has hardly been staggering, work is ongoing to achieve that goal.
| October 16, 2009
If you ever wanted to bicycle through downtown Savannah under the beautiful light of the full moon but were worried about safety, traffic, or both -- now's your chance.
| August 28, 2009
Last November, Dr. John Northup of Citizens for Clean Air and Water (CCAW) told the Chatham County Commission that they are unique. "You are the only County Commission on the East or West coast that have yet to take action opposing the construction or expansion of a LNG facility."
| August 21, 2009
An ambitious project to build a 161 mile bike and pedestrian trail along the Georgia coast got a boost last week.
| August 06, 2009When you order red snapper in a restaurant, how do you know you're eating red snapper? You don't. In fact, about three-quarters of all "red snappers" sold in the United States are mislabeled - it's probably the most mislabeled fish in the country. And mislabeling fish, any fish, is bad for two reasons - your wallet and the ocean environment. Let's first talk about the hit to your wallet. In one 2008 ...
| July 28, 2009
Savannah's recycling program is six months old, and so far citizens are doing well with the exercise in environmentalism.
| June 19, 2009Addressing a roomful of Rotary Club members at the Desoto Hilton in Savannah recently, Representative John Barrow opened up a nuclear can of worms for a couple of environmentalists in the crowd.
| June 11, 2009
Blizzard and Snowball are two lucky turtles. After being cold-stunned off the North Carolina coast, the loggerhead turtles were taken to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island for treatment. Now that they’ve recovered, Blizzard and Snowball will be returned to the sea when they are released April 25 at the conclusion of the 2009 Tybee Turtle Trot. Dr. Terry L. Norton is the director of the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. ...
| April 17, 2009
The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography is in the middle of a bracing, and quite popular, springtime series of lectures by some of its esteemed scientists.
| April 10, 2009A grassroots petition to hold an election about curbside recycling in unincorporated Chatham County will officially kick off at the Earth Day festival in Forsyth Park on Saturday.
| April 10, 2009
275 years ago, English settlers chose the highest point on the Savannah River bluff as the site of the first experimental garden in America.
| April 10, 2009To understand what is happening to solar-based energy production, one has to understand the passion of those searching for the energy Holy Grail -- limitless free energy from the sun is transformed electrochemically into limitless electrical energy at low cost with zero carbon footprint.
| April 10, 2009
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