New warm-water refuges sought for Florida’s manatees; Polk County is hotbed for solar
Manatees have found shelter in warm-water discharges from power plants that may go offline over the next few decades.
Nathan Crabbe is editor of The Invading Sea. He previously worked for The Gainesville Sun newspaper from 2005 to 2022. He served for most of that time as the paper’s opinion and engagement editor. He also covered the University of Florida and environmental beats as a reporter.
Before that, he investigated wrongful convictions for the Innocence Institute of Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and covered the environmental and county beats as a reporter for the Napa Valley Register in Napa, California.
Manatees have found shelter in warm-water discharges from power plants that may go offline over the next few decades.
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