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Hurricanes, Water Wars Threaten New High-End Oyster Industry on Gulf Coast

Hurricanes, Water Wars Threaten New High-End Oyster Industry on Gulf Coast

By Daniel R. Petrolia and William C. Walton For Cainnon Gregg, 2018 started out as a great year. After leaving his job as an installation artist to become a full-time oyster farmer in Wakulla County, Florida in 2017, Gregg began raising small oysters in baskets or bags suspended in the shallow, productive coastal waters of […]

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    Hurricanes, Water Wars Threaten New High-End Oyster Industry on Gulf Coast

    Hurricanes, Water Wars Threaten New High-End Oyster Industry on Gulf Coast

    By Daniel R. Petrolia and William C. Walton For Cainnon Gregg, 2018 started out as a great year. After leaving his job as an installation artist to become a full-time oyster farmer in Wakulla County, Florida in 2017, Gregg began raising small oysters in baskets or bags suspended in the shallow, productive coastal waters of […]

    Super Typhoon Yutu Slams U.S. Pacific Territories With Category 5 Strength

    Super Typhoon Yutu Slams U.S. Pacific Territories With Category 5 Strength

    Super Typhoon Yutu hammered the U.S. territories in the Northern Mariana Islands early Thursday morning, making it the strongest storm to hit U.S. territory this year, the Associated Press reported. The storm hit with the power of a Category 5 hurricane when it struck the largest Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan and Tinian, home to […]

    Hurricane Michael Death Toll Rises to 18, Survivors Desperate for Aid

    Hurricane Michael Death Toll Rises to 18, Survivors Desperate for Aid

    The death toll from Hurricane Michael climbed to 18 Saturday after a victim was discovered in Virginia, but officials think it could climb higher still as search and rescue efforts continue in the most hard hit areas around the Florida Panhandle, CNN reported. Panama City Fire Department Battalion Chief David Collier told CNN he thought […]

    Trump Accuses Climate Scientists of Having ‘Political Agenda’

    Trump Accuses Climate Scientists of Having ‘Political Agenda’

    President Donald Trump once again cast doubt on human contribution to climate change and accused climate scientists of having a “political agenda” during his interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes on Sunday. “Do you still think that climate change is a hoax?” correspondent Lesley Stahl asked the president point-blank. Any and all weather events are used […]

    Deadly Hurricane Michael Strongest Storm Ever to Hit Florida Panhandle

    Deadly Hurricane Michael Strongest Storm Ever to Hit Florida Panhandle

    Hurricane Michael made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in the Florida Panhandle Wednesday afternoon, leaving two dead and nearly 500,000 without power as it rammed through Florida, Georgia and Alabama, BBC News reported. With winds of 155 miles per hour, it was the third strongest storm in recorded history to hit the U.S. and […]