What Is the Relationship Between Climate Change and Flooding?

This blog post was written by Hunter Cutts as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. Sea level rise has been documented since the early 20th century and continues to be one of the most visible and talked about results of global warming. Hundreds of millions of people in the United States live in coastal areas that are vulnerable to flooding at the current sea level, and will become even more vulnerable as…

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What’s the Story of Soil in My City?

This blog post was written by Elizabeth Wilkes as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. Why Urban Soil Matters Soil is the basis for human life, supporting the life of plants which form the foundation of ecosystems. This fact can be easy to forget in the context of a city dominated by concrete and asphalt. Beneath roads, buildings, parking lots, and other impermeable surfaces in urban areas, dirt still exists, but most…

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