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    The Shocking Number of Florida Manatees Killed by Boats Last Year

    The Shocking Number of Florida Manatees Killed by Boats Last Year

    By John R. Platt and Dipika Kadaba Florida manatees had another deadly year in 2019. An estimated 531 manatees died in Florida waters in the past 12 months. That’s a significant decrease from the number of deaths in 2018, when 824 manatees died, but it still represents a nearly 10 percent loss to their population […]

    Florida Town Will Pay Residents to Help Burrowing Owls Find a Home

    Florida Town Will Pay Residents to Help Burrowing Owls Find a Home

    Burrowing owls, which make their homes in small holes in the ground, are having a rough time in Florida. That’s why Marco Island on the Gulf Coast passed a resolution to pay residents $250 to start an owl burrow in their front yard, as the Marco Eagle reported. The city council’s resolution earmarks ,000 a […]

    Red Tide That Plagued Florida for 15 Months Is Back

    Red Tide That Plagued Florida for 15 Months Is Back

    The red tide that plagued Florida for 15 months — killing marine life and causing respiratory problems for humans — is back, The Associated Press reported Saturday. Scientists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute announced Friday that samples of water taken off the shore of Collier County turned up high concentrations of the […]

    Rising Seas Threaten Hundreds of Native American Heritage Sites Along Florida’s Gulf Coast

    Rising Seas Threaten Hundreds of Native American Heritage Sites Along Florida’s Gulf Coast

    By Jayur Mehta, Tara Skipton Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these stone-tool-wielding, megafauna-hunting peoples can be found at the bottom of numerous limestone freshwater sinkholes in Florida’s Panhandle and along the ancient shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico. Specialized archaeologists using scuba gear, remote sensing equipment or […]

    Climate Crisis Only Gets 7 Minutes of Airtime at First Dem Debate

    Climate Crisis Only Gets 7 Minutes of Airtime at First Dem Debate

    Confronting the climate crisis is the No. 1 issue for 96 percent of Democratic voters, but it clocked only around seven minutes of airtime at the first Democratic Presidential debate Wednesday, Vox reported. The small amount of time spent on climate change, and the fact that the first climate-centered questions came an hour and 22 […]

    Glyphosate to Be Banned on Fort Myers Beach

    Glyphosate to Be Banned on Fort Myers Beach

    First Fort Myers banned plastic straws. Now it banned Roundup, or glyphosate, the controversial herbicide recently blamed for causing cancer by several juries, the News Press reports. Like the plastic straw ban, the driving force behind the ban was the health of Fort Myers’ waterways and marine resources. “This effort has all been about water […]