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Fairgoers ride the ferris wheel at sunset at the Georgia National Fair in Perry, Ga., on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo/Margaret Bartlett)

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Goats and swings: A trip to the Georgia National Fair with UGA photojournalists

Students from the University of Georgia’s Advanced Photojournalism class spent a long day documenting the Georgia National Fair in Perry, Ga. With an early morning charge to "show what the fair means and not what it looks like," students covered everything from livestock competitions to concerts.

November 01, 2024
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  • GPB News Staff
Cows graze in a field in Luncavita, Romania, in this file photo. Denmark will impose cattle farmers with a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions starting in 2030, claiming it will be the first country to do so in a move to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from each of its cows.

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Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, the first country to do so

Levels of methane have increased particularly quickly since 2020. Livestock account for about 32% of human-caused methane emissions, the U.N. Environment Program says.

June 27, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Goats, are you paying attention to our tone of voice? A new study tries to answer that question. It involved 27 goats, a loudspeaker and recordings of the phrase "Hey, look over here!"

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  • Animals

Hey lil' goat, can you tell the difference between a happy voice and an angry voice?

Dogs tune into the tone of human voices. Do livestock? To find out, goatologists ran an experiment using a hidden speaker that broadcast two versions of the phrase "Hey, look over here."

January 30, 2024
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  • Marc Silver
Multiple cows were killed after a livestock trailer caught fire on Interstate 20 east in Greene County, Georgia, state troopers say.

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  • News

Loose cows roam free on highway after deadly cattle trailer fire, Georgia officials say

Multiple cows were killed and others roamed free after a livestock trailer caught fire on a Georgia highway.

October 27, 2023
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  • Tanasia Kenney
The snow-covered soya fields at the Belfontaine Holstein farm are pictured in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, on Dec. 9, 2021. Canadian Super Pigs were bred to survive the winter.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Watch out for Super Pigs!

Canadian Super Pigs are on the rise and entering the United States. NPR's Scott Simon laments.

April 08, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
Chattahoochee Hills Charter School

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Georgia students mingle with farm animals to spark interest in agriculture

Students in metro Atlanta schools get the chance to mingle with barnyard animals and learn about food production as part of a new USDA initiative to get young Georgians interested in agriculture.

September 28, 2022
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  • Riley Bunch
Staff and volunteers load a camel into a vehicle to be evacuated from Feldman Ecopark in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on May 4. The zoo has been shelled repeatedly during the Russian invasion. At least five staff or volunteers were killed and nearly 100 animals at the zoo died as of April.

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War takes a heavy toll on animals too. See how people in Ukraine strive to save them

Thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced. Four-legged Ukrainians are also suffering, but there are groups working to help the animals.

September 20, 2022
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  • Eleanor Beardsley and
  • Carol Guzy
An unoccupied lifeboat drifts near Kodakarajima island. Japanese authorities are racing to find dozens of missing sailors from a cargo ship that sank in a typhoon.

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2nd Crew Member Found Alive From Cattle-Carrying Ship That Sank Off Japan

Another typhoon is bearing down on the search area as rescuers rush to find more survivors from the Gulf Livestock 1, which went down Wednesday with 43 crew and some 5,800 head of cattle aboard.

September 04, 2020
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  • Scott Neuman

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  • Food

Chew On This For Earth Day: How Our Diets Impact The Planet

The foods we choose to put on our plates — or toss away – could have more of an ecological impact than many of us realize.

April 24, 2017
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  • Maria Godoy and
  • Allison Aubrey

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