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Hoya Harvest Garden Launches at Breaking Ground Festival
Georgetown University’s Earth Commons Institute opened a new garden to provide a resource for students and professors to learn about sustainable. …
April 29, 2023
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SPOTLIGHT: GU Earth Week Celebrates Student Environmentalism
On Friday, the Earth Commons hosted the Breaking Ground Festival to celebrate the launch of a new community garden on the Leavey Center Patio. The festival featured local…
April 26, 2023
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The UN Agreed to a Historic Treaty To Protect Marine Life. Now What?
Marine biologist Rebecca Helm gives her take on what the historic United Nations treaty to protect the high seas means for the fight against climate.…
April 24, 2023
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Hoya Harvest Garden blooms atop Regents
The Hoya Harvest Garden opens on the Regents Hall fourth floor patio this spring, providing food for the local community and a space for students and faculty to learn about…
April 21, 2023
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China Watcher: Secret police — Fentanyl frustration — Photon Media
Joanna Lewis is director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and an expert on…
April 20, 2023
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Jumpin’ Jupiter, Ferry Tales, and More Best Bets for April 13–19
The Potomac River, despite being ever-present in the backdrop of D.C., isn’t talked about that much, except for that time pop singer Lorde took an ill-advised swim in it. A…
April 17, 2023
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Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Is Bursting With Life
It is a rare chance to see the impact of a natural disaster on the ocean more than a decade after it occurred, said Rebecca Helm, a marine biologist at Georgetown University who…
April 17, 2023
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Georgetown Professor First to Research Chesapeake Bay Dolphins
Janet Mann, a Georgetown professor of biology and psychology, spoke at Georgetown University on March 30 to discuss her 35 years of research on the social networks of bottlenose…
April 13, 2023
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How to follow along on great spring bird migration
“The past 20 years have seen a true renaissance in different technologies to track bird migrations around the world at scales that haven’t been possible before,” said Peter…
April 13, 2023
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Renowned Author Amitav Ghosh Advocates for Environmental Literature
The lecture was the keynote event in the “Voices on the Environment” series hosted by the Georgetown Earth Commons, and there, Ghosh said that although the story depicted in…
April 13, 2023