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United Planet’s annual Photo & Video Contest is now accepting submissions! The contest is open to the public and is a great opportunity for anyone to enter their travel photography and videography for a chance to win a FREE 2-week volunteer abroad trip with United Planet.
Submissions are due by [...]
Lawyer Chris Byrd had just won a court victory on behalf of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. After a four-day trial, a jury had ruled that a Marion County couple had illegally filled in wetlands by an aquatic preserve along the Rainbow River. Instead of celebrating, the DEP attorney felt worried.
“As soon as the [...]
Something’s wrong with the Indian River Lagoon.
Manatees, dolphins and pelicans are dying at record rates. Blue crabs seem weak. Bloom after bloom of algae clouds the lagoon’s seagrass.
Scientists can’t say with any certainty what’s wrong, though all agree something has gone awry and may be irreversible.
Some point to global warming. Others blame pollution. Even manatees [...]
This is a brown bag lunch seminar presented by the Center for Wetlands. The seminars this semester will focus on coastal systems and climate issues and this week’s seminar is: This final seminar is: Decadal to seasonal beach and nearshore morphodynamics at NASA-Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, presented by: Peter Adams, Assistant Professor, Department [...]
Florida’s large utility companies could be forced to change how much they charge customers for future nuclear power plants.
A legislative push to tinker with a controversial seven-year-old law is gaining momentum in the halls of the state Capitol despite the united opposition of power companies such as Florida Power & Light and Progress Energy.
Utilities normally [...]
Last year the Sentinel ran a series of excellent reports by Kevin Spear about the condition of 22 Florida rivers from Miami to Pensacola. The prognosis was not good for a growing, thirsty state, heavily dependent on tourism for its economy.
Now, Gov. Rick Scott’s environmental agency is proposing pollution-friendly changes to our water-quality standards. These would adversely [...]
In “Region at Risk,” The Gainesville Sun spotlighted the high rates of fatal cancers in rural areas of north Florida. The conclusions of local cancer experts appear to be that rural residents do not receive adequate medical care needed to detect and treat cancers early.
In a companion article, The Sun cites studies in North Carolina [...]
Rep. Steve Crisafulli has proposed a two-year moratorium on local ordinances that put stricter rules on fertilizer use than what the state recommends.
There is no bill yet, but under Crisafulli’s proposed legislation, the moratorium would run until the middle of 2015, and a 13-member commission would be appointed to review local ordinances statewide to make [...]
The Silk Roads Discussion Series continues Tuesday with “Is Religion Holding Back Science?” Speakers from a variety of backgrounds will briefly address the topic from each of their own perspectives.
Those attending will then have an opportunity to ask questions and discuss in an informal setting.
Following a brief reception, the discussion will begin at 7 p.m. [...]
OCALA – The proposed building of a nuclear plant in Levy County got a push forward Tuesday when the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board rejected a challenge by two environmental groups opposing the plan on environmental grounds, according to a media release Tuesday from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The Nuclear Information and Resource Service and the [...]
“Entering the springs and immersion in the waters has a miraculous effect,” she says. “I overheard one kid say before he dove into Royal Springs, ‘When you go in the springs, it’s like you start your life over.’”
Artist Annie Pais is displaying an oil painting of Gilchrist Blue Springs. She says her work is part [...]
A long time ago, Florida attracted writers from across the country who waxed poetic about its natural beauty — haunting, unspoiled and profuse. Gradually, then rapidly, natural Florida was bulldozed under and paved over. Writers looked to unspoiled places elsewhere.
Now the national press is again paying attention to natural Florida. And the appraisal is not [...]
OCALA – The proposed building of a nuclear plant in Levy County got a push forward Tuesday when the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board rejected a challenge by two environmental groups opposing the plan on environmental grounds, according to a media release Tuesday from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The Nuclear Information and Resource Service and the [...]
Even as a Red Tide algae bloom is wiping out a record number of manatees in southwest Florida, a mysterious ailment is killing dozens more manatees on the state’s east coast. So far, state biologists have been unable to pinpoint the cause.
Pat Rose, a former government manatee biologist who is now executive director of the [...]
The alligator keeps circling closer to us, but David Guest blows off my concern.
“It’s a little one,” he scoffs. “It can’t hurt you.”
With my bare feet in the mud and the gator suddenly sinking out of sight beneath the swampy lake, I consider the source of this “it-can’t-hurt-you” advice and quickly hop back into the boat.
Guest, [...]
Green Drinks Wednesday, March 6: There are so many cool things going on in our little town of Gainesville, sometimes it’s hard to decide what to do… Green Drinks is always the first Wednesday of the month, and in March, there’s something we think you won’t want to miss: Gubernatorial candidate Nan Rich is coming [...]
Silver Springs has been the subject of considerable attention for the past year. Last spring, Silver Springs’ flows were plummeting to a record low and nitrate contamination was at an all-time high.
The proposed Adena Springs Ranch was requesting a permit to withdraw an additional 13 million gallons per day from the aquifer feeding Silver Springs. [...]
We strongly oppose any attempt to drill for oil – or even search for it – in the Blackwater River State Forest.
The area is too valuable as an environmental and recreational asset in north and central Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties for it to be spoiled by oil drilling.
This is one to keep an eye [...]
To hear him tell it, Brandon business executive Randall F. “Randy” Greene never wanted the job he has with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection that pays $83 an hour.
“I’ve never worked for any public entity before,” said Greene, 63, a Palatka native with a Wharton School MBA.
Greene didn’t even apply for the newly created [...]
Seven months after “Speak Up: Silver Springs,” the public continues to call on Florida’s governor, Department of Environmental Protection and Legislature to take action to protect and restore our impaired waterways.
Unfortunately, instead of resolving the serious problems that threaten our state’s most precious natural resources, efforts in Tallahassee have focused on rolling back environmental safeguards [...]
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