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African Nations Consider Legalized Elephant Hunts
Status Check for African ElephantsPhoto: Paul Tessier/StocksySouthern African Nations Consider Legalized Elephant HuntsConservationists are outraged, fearing protections will endAn elephant summit...
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Love Bug Swarms Invade Central Florida
Love Bugs swarming on Spanish NeedlesLike clockwork the Love Bugs have returned to menace drivers across Central Florida. Scientifically they are Plecia nearctica, small black flies with red thoraxes....
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Brutal Heat Wave Bakes Florida
Florida has already experienced 10 days of hot, dry weather.At least 10 days to 2-weeks of hotter and drier weather are in the forecast.A prolonged heat wave is forecast to bake the Florida peninsula...
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Snake Season Starts Early for Florida
A juvenile Diamondback Rattlesnake hanging out under a water hose. These largest and most common vipers will seek refuge near houses and damp places on the hottest and driest days.Florida's is home to...
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Ocean Garbage Patches Rapidly Expand
Legacy of the Anthropocene:Oceans filled with garbageThe pristine Arctic has become a garbage dump for 300 billion pieces of plastic'Dead end for floating plastics': Plastic waste migrates to Arctic...
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Peruvian Apple Cactus
In the Florida summer garden there is nothing quite so magnificent as the night-blooming Peruvian Apple Cactus (Cereus repandus). By day these tree-like cacti appear rather lifeless with large...
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Iguana Invasion
Photo: Mike Stocker Iguanas Spread as Climate Warms After another warm winter behind us and now with record-breaking summer heat—ideal iguana weather—the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) has...
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Mosquito Lagoon
In summer Mosquito Lagoon is often best enjoyed after an afternoon thunderstorm when the light is less intense and the heat is tolerable. The mosquitoes? They will be with you no matter when you...
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Seaweed meets Climate Change
Mats of dead sargassum line the beaches of Cape CanaveralSargassum seaweed now regularly piles up on Florida beaches The seaweed ‘belt’ extends across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa The piles of...
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Great Arctic Heat Wave of 2019
Anomalous Heat Dome atop Greenland and the ArcticJuly 29, 2019, ECMWF Model, Pivotal WeatherOn July 26, 2019, more temperature records fell in Europe as the historic heat wave that brought the hottest...
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Will Hurricane Chantal Impact Florida?
On August 1 the new GFS model was predicting a Category 3 Hurricane Chantal to be located off the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida 13 days later on August 14, 2019. Weather geeks often refer to this as...
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Coral Snake Season
Florida Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius)Is there a season for coral snakes in Florida? Not really, but one is much more likely to encounter a coral snake in the late summer when it is hot and muggy with...
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Brown-eyed Susan Thrive in Hurricane Michael Scar
When catastrophic Hurricane Michael finished crossing the Florida panhandle more than 2.8 million acres of timber were left destroyed or severely damaged by the storms 155 mph winds. In Bay, Calhoun...
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Hurricane Dorian's Path to Florida
Strengthening Hurricane Dorian passes Puerto Rico on August 28, 2019.Will the storm impact Florida?The buzz in Florida today is whether Hurricane Dorian will strike the east coast Labor Day weekend or...
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In the Eye of Hurricane Dorian
Hurricane Dorian became one of the most intense hurricanes ever in the Atlantic basin on Sunday, September 1, 2019. His winds sustained at 185 mph with gusts over 200 mph, and a central pressure that...
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Springs of the Ecofina Creek
Pitt Spring on the Econfina CreekThe park is currently open only Friday-Sunday limited hours due to hurricane damage.Located at 30.4327233 N, 85.5587404 WGoogle Maps Plus Code CFJ3+XF Youngstown,...
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Bottled Water is Sucking Florida Springs Dry
Silver Glen Springsin Florida's Ocala National ForestPhoto: Phillip LottBottled Water Is Sucking Florida DryBy Michael Sainato and Chelsea SkojecFlorida has the largest concentration of freshwater...
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Florida's 19 Native Sunflowers
Helianthus floridanusSeminole State ForestPhoto:Â Phillip LottIts sunflower season in Florida and there are many species in bloom despite the fact that this has been another very hot and extremely dry...
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Poisonous Snakes of Florida
Pygmy RattlesnakeThis little rattlesnake is perfectly camouflaged to disappear into with most natural environments in FloridaAs the Florida peninsula endures week 4 of the latest hot, dry period its a...
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Flash Drought 2019
The sky should not look like this in Florida's rainy season. This October 1, 2019 shot of Lake Theresa, in Deltona shows virtually clear skies with a few fast-moving cumulus clouds racing in on strong...
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