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The University of Oregon has received a $4.52 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a new initiative envisioning a transformative...

The program is designed to prepare the next generation of environmental professionals while building environmental leadership in historically marginalized communities. Yellow Springs, OH (PRUnderground) December 23rd, 2020 Antioch University is set to launch a Bachelor of Science Degree Completion Program in Environmental Studies, Sustainability, and Sciences to be offered in a 100% online format. The program was established to offer an accessible, affordable, academically rigorous bachelor of science completion degree that educates students to deal with the impacts of a changing clima...

Llamas Are Having A Moment In The US, But They've Been Icons In South America For Millennia Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Because of their gentle and docile demeanor, llamas are often favorites at petting zoos. They appear at festivals and weddings and have even been deployed as therapy animals. Llamas have also made medical news in 2020. Their immune systems produce nanobodies - tiny antibody fragments much smaller than human antibodies - that have potential as COVID-19 treatments. Scientists are also testing synthetic versions...

 E-Mail In 2006, Greenpeace launched a campaign exposing deforestation caused by soy production in the Brazilian Amazon. In the previous year, soy farming expanded into more than 1,600 square kilometers of recently cleared forests. The destruction, they said, had to stop. In response, major soy companies in the region reached a landmark agreement as signatories to the Amazon Soy Moratorium (ASM), pledging not to purchase crops grown on recently cleared land. Deforestation fell in the following years, but no one had measured the moratorium's aggregate impact. Now, assistant professor Robert H...