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Enjoy California sweet potatoes around the clock and calendar

During the Civil War, sweet potatoes were parched, ground and brewed into a substitute for coffee.

Sweet potatoes are perhaps most familiar in the U.S. smothered with melted marshmallows in a...

Posted on Friday, May 17, 2013 at 8:29 AM

Author: Jeannette E. Warnert

SoilWeb reveals what's hidden underneath the ground's surface

Beneath your home, below lawns, under asphalt streets, farms and natural areas there is a complex...

The Magic Kingdom on SoilWeb (http://ucanr.edu/soilweb).

Posted on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 8:29 AM

Author: Jeannette E. Warnert

Obesity researchers leave no molecule unturned

Obesity research plotted onto an illustration of the human digestive system.

The biennial Childhood Obesity Conference is taking place in Long Beach June 18-20. Book-ended by...

Posted on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 1:33 PM

Author: Ann Brody Guy

Weather changes, global warming doesn’t

The first thing I had to learn as writing staff at the John Muir Institute for the Environment, UC...

ClimateChange

Posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 9:40 AM

Author: Suanne Klahorst

California Naturalist Program grows a new constituency for nature

Have you heard of the UC ANR California Naturalist Program? This new UC ANR program fosters a...

California Naturalists in-training participate in NestWatch, a nationwide monitoring program designed to track status and trends in the reproductive biology of birds.

California Naturalists in-training participate in NestWatch, a nationwide monitoring program designed to track status and trends in the reproductive biology of birds.

Posted on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 8:10 AM