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Return to the Land of the Walking Dead
Every Halloween is time to return to the Land of the Walking Dead. Next week we're on. Until then, revisit this previous trip and my notes on the experience.How many people have noticed that the name...
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Caesar's Weed Marches Across Florida
Urena lobata, commonly called Caesar's Weed is one of Florida's more attractive noxious weeds. It can be found in most natural areas dominating the areas that get ample sunlight. Its charming pink...
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7 Spooky Haunted Places to Visit this Halloween
7 spooky under-the-radar places to visit, according to a ghost hunterSome people turn to a travel agent to help plan a fabulous vacation. If you’re trying to go on a haunted one this Halloween, though,...
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Halloween Freeze
Image: @digitalcontentorsHalloween freeze: Frigid blast of Arctic air to bring record cold temperatures to much of the U.S. next weekChicago could drop below freezing while Denver plummets into the...
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Peacock Springs
With more than 300 document springs in the Suwannee River Basin its hard to decide where to start searching for the most spectacular of these features. This area has one of the highest concentrations...
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Evolution of Land Plants
Markee SpringBacteria, algae, lichens in a warm, sulphur-rich environment. Its not hard to imagine life emanating from a place like this.How Did Plants Arrive on Land?Researchers recently published...
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Bologna and Cream Cheese Cake, and other weird inexplicable retro...
Ah, the flavors of Thanksgiving. There’s the turkey, the stuffing, the cranberry sauce. And who could forget the seafoam salad?Not Maya Kosoff’s family, that’s who.The freelance writer and editor...
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Mango Tree Sooty Mold
Initial signs of Sooty Mold growth on mango tree appear as blotches of white and black on leaves, eventually the tree will become covered with fungi that have a soot-like appearance.Central Florida has...
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Christmas in Curaçao: Grote Knip
Playa Kenepa GrandiIn the Grote Knip on Curaçao's Westpunt is the spectacular Playa Kenepa Grandi Beach. This weekend there is live music and lots of people enjoying the warm water.p.p1 {margin: 0.0px...
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Wild Weather Forecast for Florida Christmas
A Gulf storm producing a heavy rain event is becoming more likely this weekend, but model differences still exist thus there is decreased confidence in the exact locations that could see the heaviest...
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Holiday Palm Trees
The weather is balmy for the 2019-2020 holidays so to make it feel a little more holiday like we dressed the queen palms with a few thousand lights. Follow phillipp.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px...
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Flamingos of Curaçao's Williwood
Traveling across Curaçao you'll find lots of cacti and some incredible beaches, but did you know there's also a pretty reliable flock of flamingos to be found as well?As you're traveling northwest to...
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Timeline of Florida Freezes
Around the first of January new Floridians begin asking when we are most likely to experience freezing weather? The answer is never really clear. Anytime between the first of December and the end of...
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January Heat Envelops Florida
This week the dominant synoptic feature of Florida weather will continue to be an anomalously strong ridge of high pressure forecast to amplify northward from the Greater Antilles northward across the...
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2019 2nd Hottest Year Ever
2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Ever, Closing Out the Warmest Decade EverWhile Trump, Putin, and MbS party like its 1984The past decade was the hottest on record, government researchers announced on...
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Florida's Early Spring
The first flight of butterflies has begun across Florida and non-native sunflower trees remained in bloom throughout the winter. Above, an Eastern Tiger Butterfly (Papilio glaucus) more common in...
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Bats and the Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak
These bat-watchers in Austin, Texas likely do not suspect that all those bats are vectors of many viruses. Congress Avenue Bridge at dusk. Photo: Peter Potrowl.If previous outbreaks of coronavirus...
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Rapidly Warming Seas Fuel Ocean Current Changes
Brutal heat and dry continues across Honduras and Guatemala.Photo: Phillip LottThree-quarters of the world’s ocean waters have sped up their pace in recent decades, a massive development that was not...
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No Global Warming Hiatus: Antarctica in the 60°s
The NOAA ship R/V Revelle collects climate data in Antarctica.Photo: NOAAThere is No Global Warming Hiatusno slowdown in the pace of global temperature riseDays after the Earth saw its warmest January...
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Falmouth Springs: The World's Shortest River
Falmouth Sporing is a first magnitude spring, technically a karst window also known as the shortest river in the world.Follow Phillipon instagram@majikphilThe river rise or spring is deceptively calm...
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