A key question for candidates: How will you reduce use of fossil fuels?
By Charles Dodson It has been a brutal, scorching, scary summer for people around the planet, which includes us Floridians....
Death of whale near Key West highlights the dangers posed by plastics pollution and lost fishing gear
By Jon Paul “J.P.” Brooker, Ingrid Giskes and Nicholas Mallos, Ocean Conservancy In May, a 47-foot-long adult male sperm whale...
Climate crisis: doing too little and hoping it will all just go away
By E.S. Browning If you learned you had cancer and needed chemotherapy soon, what would you do? You would probably...
Environmental bill falls short, deserves veto
By Palm Beach Post Editorial Board Gov. Ron DeSantis can cement his claim of being a pro-environmental governor by taking quick...
A Florida mother has decided that everyone needs to start getting serious about the grim climate-change evidence
By Amanda Sherlock, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Miami You do not need to be an expert to act on climate change....
Signs of hope for endangered Everglade snail kite
By J. Scott Angle We know whether the Everglade snail kite becomes more or less endangered every few hours. At...
Free the Ocklawaha River
By Charlie Crist Florida’s great outdoors are unlike anything else in the world. From manatees, to spoonbills, to bald cypress...
The springs of Florida have changed for the worse, but we can still save them
By Doug Stamm, photographer In the 1970s I started documenting the underwater world of Florida’s springs. As a biologist/diver I...
Gov. DeSantis: Please cut the harmful rhetoric and focus on what’s important
By Mary Anna Mancuso, RepublicEn.org Gov. Ron DeSantis had the opportunity to be Florida’s modern version of Teddy Roosevelt, a...
More manatees than ever have died in 2021, here’s how to help protect them
By Jason Dill, Bradenton Herald November isn’t only a month for turkeys. It’s also a month to celebrate the manatee...
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