GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A group of state lawmakers is scheduled next week to tour Miami International Airport and see first-hand a potential gateway for what a University of Florida researcher says could threaten the nation’s food supply: agricultural bioterrorism.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s aggressive pursuit of health-related grants helped generate a record $379.5 million in research funding during fiscal year 2000-2001, up 11.8 percent from the previous year, figures released today show.
MYAKKA CITY, Fla. — When tree deaths began to exceed normal rates in Manatee County’s Flatford Swamp in 1998, environmentalists and Florida water managers suspected water runoff from nearby farms.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The twin menaces of hurricanes and beachfront development appear poised to wipe out Florida’s most diminutive coastal native, the beach mouse, according to new research led by a University of Florida scientist.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Getting your goat will be as easy as picking up a loaf of bread on the way home, if Florida researchers have anything to do with it.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It adds the fire to chili and the hot to salsa, but what does the zing do for the pepper?
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida is missing a large part of the nation’s greatest growth explosion as the Sunshine State ranks dead last in the percentage of households with older baby boomers, according to the latest statistics available in a newly released University of Florida publication.
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Vanishing coastlines may not be the only peril in a global-warming world; disease-carrying Asian tiger mosquitoes may find the hotter temperatures to their liking and may show up in places they’ve never been seen before, according to new research published this week.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida boaters with an environmental conscience now can look for marinas with the equivalent of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, thanks to a new state program.