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dead zone gulf 2017

Dead zone in Gulf of Mexico largest ever, as Georgia awaits ruling on water flow to Florida

August 2, 2017, 10:13 pm/0 Comments
David Pendered

The federal climate agency on Wednesday reported the annual dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest on record – about the size of New Jersey. The report comes as Georgia awaits a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court over the amount of water that flows from Georgia into Florida. Florida says the flow is insufficient to support the oyster habitat in the Apalachicola Bay.

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Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Facing federal budget cuts, Georgia alone cannot bear the brunt of environmental protection

July 2, 2017, 7:53 pm/0 Comments
Hattie Dorsey

By Guest Columnist GIL ROGERS, director of the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Georgia and Alabama offices

On July 4th, many Georgians celebrate by heading outdoors to cool off in rivers and lakes around the state, hike trails around Georgia’s state parks, and enjoy the fireworks after running Atlanta’s Peachtree Road Race, the world’s largest 10K.

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Catholics, environment

Faith community stepping up on climate change

June 11, 2017, 2:55 pm/0 Comments
Hattie Dorsey

By Guest Columnist SUSAN VARLAMOFF, coauthor of the ‘Laudato Si Action Plan’ and author of ‘Sustainable Gardening for the Southeast’

Nature abhors a vacuum. With the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate accord, there is a void in global leadership on climate change that others are willing and able to fill it. Countries like China, Germany and France are stepping up. In the U.S., states, cities, universities, corporations, and even churches are voluntarily reducing greenhouse emissions in the spirit of the Paris climate accord.

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Aerial view of Cumberland Island, May 2017

Prevent proposed development to preserve majestic coastal beauty of Cumberland Island

May 28, 2017, 4:11 pm/5 Comments
Hattie Dorsey

By Guest Columnist DAVID KYLER, executive director of the Center for a Sustainable Coast, located in St. Simons

Georgians must resolve to protect Cumberland Island as a rare natural treasure

Among my most cherished memories as a kid growing up in western Pennsylvania is a series of summer treks to the New Jersey shore. Reflecting on these memories, it’s evident that from my earliest days I found the attraction of the land-sea boundary instinctive and insistent – a place where some of nature’s most beautiful, dynamic, and, at times, powerful and destructive forces could be witnessed.

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