Fresh Take FloridaSeptember 3, 2024
7min0
All told, hundreds of divers across Florida captured more than 30,000 fish during more than 900 trips last year.
Tag: atlantic ocean
Fresh Take FloridaSeptember 3, 2024
Wes WolfeOctober 6, 2022
6min0
'This may be the most lethal coral disease ever recorded.'
Associated PressJune 24, 2020
6min285
The Atlantic is a real live ocean once again
Phil AmmannJuly 6, 2017
7min301
Progress Florida is one of the organizations and leaders opposing a plan to use seismic airgun testing for oil and gas exploration off the state’s Atlantic coast. The progressive nonprofit organization says the procedure threatens marine wildlife and coastal economies as well as Florida’s tourism and fishing industries. “The noise from seismic airgun blasts is […]
Terry RoenMay 25, 2017
3min297
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to be more active than normal, with five to nine hurricanes. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts 11 to 17 named tropical storms will develop in the region, which includes the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, the agency announced Thursday. NOAA predicted that five to […]
Associated PressMay 24, 2016
3min221
Donald Trump wants to build another huge wall, this time to keep out the rising seas threatening to swamp his luxury golf resort in Ireland. The Republican presidential candidate has called climate change a “con job” and a “hoax.” But in an application filed this month in County Clare, Ireland, the Trump International Golf Links […]
Diane RobertsApril 19, 2016
8min633
Ever wonder what will be left of natural Florida when Rick Scott slithers out of the Governor’s Mansion for the last time? Look at the Indian River Lagoon. Once a 150 mile-long bay of clear water filled with manatees, sea grasses and oysters, it has become a brown, stinking monoculture where only algae thrive. The […]
Diane RobertsApril 18, 20168min270
Ever wonder what will be left of natural Florida when Rick Scott slithers out of the Governor’s Mansion for the last time? Look at the Indian River Lagoon. Once a 150 mile-long bay of clear water filled with manatees, sea grasses and oysters, it has become a brown, stinking monoculture where only algae thrive. The […]
Phil AmmannApril 11, 20166min279
Earlier this month I stood in breathless awe, witnessing a “miracle” of modern technology – a wild-running Elwha River in northwestern Washington State. I consider it a wonder because just 10 years ago the Elwha was a river in trouble. Dammed in two places in the early 1900s for hydroelectric power generation, the river had […]
Associated PressApril 4, 2016
1min166
A central Florida mayor still intends to go through with his plan to return home from a visit to Cuba alone in a makeshift raft. DeBary Mayor Clint Johnson tweeted on Saturday “Ocean test run complete! … #Cuba next!” after spending Friday night out in the Atlantic Ocean. A GPS tracking website says he started […]