Tuesday marks six days since a 19-year-old man walked onto a South Florida high school campus, opened fire, and murdered 17 people. Many students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have spoken out for stricter gun laws. Now students in Kern County are doing the same. On Monday afternoon, students …
Read More »Warmer weather is turning turtles on this South Florida beach female
Thanks to warmer temperatures, nearly all of the baby sea turtles hatching on a South Florida beach are turning out female. The dominance of the female reptiles on Boca Raton’s … Click to Continue »
Read More »Florida offshore oil drilling may be back on table
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida is still under consideration for offshore oil drilling, a top Interior Department official said Friday, contradicting an announcement last week from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that … Click to Continue »
Read More »Florida to be spared in offshore drilling expansion, Zinke says
A plan to open Florida’s tourism-dependent Atlantic and Gulf coasts to offshore oil and gas drilling was dropped by the Trump administration Tuesday after a bipartisan backlash that also threatened … Click to Continue »
Read More »West Coast, Florida officials resist Trump administration offshore drilling plan
There is a reason why the last federal sale of oil or gas drilling leases off Florida’s Gulf coast or California’s Pacific coast was in the 1980s: The local and … Click to Continue »
Read More »Biscuit products recalled from California to NC to Florida due to possible listeria
Listeria concerns at T. Marzetti Company have caused a recall of biscuit products from Florida to California, including several store brands. Listeria causes listeriosis, which infects 1,600 people each year, … Click to Continue »
Read More »Central Florida endangered sparrow ‘unlikely’ to survive in the wild
A Central Florida bird has begun to plunge so swiftly toward extinction in the wild that biologists are considering the risky option of capturing the last of the species, including … Click to Continue »
Read More »Hurricane Irma destroys record number of turtle nests on Central Florida coast
Beaches along south Brevard County are a world-class refuge for sea turtles that had a record number of nests just as Hurricane Irma mauled Florida last month. About half of … Click to Continue »
Read More »What counting Florida butterflies can tell the world about climate change
Every year when summer temperatures sizzle and the rest of South Florida heads inside, a dedicated crew of citizen scientists ventures into the buggy heat to do an increasingly difficult … Click to Continue »
Read More »The Arctic is melting – and South Florida faces more flooding
A new assessment of polar ice melt could mean bad news for South Florida: higher sea rise than previously thought. Based on new evidence, the Arctic Council – a cooperative … Click to Continue »
Read More »Vanishing ocean floor in the Florida Keys worsens risks from sea rise, study finds
If sea rise weren’t scary enough, scientists have now found another phenomenon threatening the Florida Keys and other coasts protected by reefs: a vanishing ocean floor. In a study published … Click to Continue »
Read More »Florida manatees should survive through coming century, experts say
Florida manatees may continue to die from toxic algae, freezing weather, ecosystem collapse and boat collisions, but the species appears on track to survive through the coming century, according to … Click to Continue »
Read More »Sea snail found in Florida Keys is the state’s latest exotic invader
The discovery of a new sea snail in the Florida Keys – one with strange spiderlike powers – has scientists worried that they may be seeing the beginning of the … Click to Continue »
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