While the United Nations has been holding a climate change summit in Paris (November 30 to December 11), several indigenous leaders from Turtle Island (what you might call North America) voiced their frustration with the destruction that has brought us to this point. “We cannot live on the Moon or…
If you’re planning to hit the beach for some day-after-Thanksgiving — or any time this weekend for that matter — you might need to stay out of the water. The National Weather Service has extended a coastal hazard warning for coastal areas that include a high risk of rip currents as…
November has been hot as balls. But that’s about to change, if forecasters are right. The National Weather Service says that a cold front is headed in our general direction in the coming week, which means a lot of sloppy rain but also some cooler temps. And by “cooler temps”…
After 65 years of shoveling snow in Iowa, Frank Poma was tired. “You get rid of it,” he says, “and then it keeps coming back.” So about five years ago, Poma and his wife Cindi bought an RV and headed for Knight’s Key RV Resort and Marina, an unpretentious, 24-acre…
At 7:30 in the evening, Terri Frana noticed two black bears gallop through the backyard of her 10-year-old, $725,000 house in Lake Mary, just north of Orlando. Frana, a 44-year-old banker with brown bangs and a kind face, was used to seeing the beasts around her woodsy neighborhood, but she…
Notch this one down as a win for . . . well . . . um . . . guess it’s hard to exactly tell who this is a win for . . . Florida, along with a gaggle of 31 other states, has temporarily fended off the implementation…
A shake-up in the support of a controversial and big dollar project in the Everglades has environmentalists cheering that the plan’s days are possibly numbered. But although the latest news on the River of Grass Greenway, a path that would link Naples to Miami, does seem to considerably alter the prospects,…
The South Florida Wildlands Association says that twenty Broward County municipalities have passed resolutions that oppose Kanter Realty’s application to drill for oil in the Everglades. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection, meanwhile, has requested more information from Kanter before the DEP can “fully consider whether the applicant’s proposal conforms to…
This spring, we reported on a troubling trend breaking out in some protected waterways in Florida: manatee abuse. Now, everybody loves the not-so-little sea critters. That’s the problem. In waterways around the state, various “swim with manatee” tours are potentially interfering with the manatee’s habitat — a possibility highlighted most…
Just when you thought it was safe to not care about hurricanes, the National Hurricane Center is saying that there are not one, but two, systems out there with a good chance of development. Of special note is the first system that just came off the coast of Africa, which…
The Port Everglades is currently the third busiest cruise port and 11th busiest freight port in the nation. And it’s about to get busier with plans for deepen and wide the port under way. In 2007, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners approved the Port’s Master/Vision Plan, which included a…
While she’s a sloppy and disorganized system, Erika is bringing torrential rain and wind with her when she passes over Florida in a few days, and that has prompted Gov. Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency for all of Florida. “The National Guard is now partially activated and…
Tropical Storm Erika wobbled a little last night, which could mean the storm might brush past us come Monday. Still, Florida remains in the “cone of uncertainty” even as Erika remains a tad disorganized. Bottom line, our chances of getting a direct hit just went down a bit, but Thursday’s…
It’s time to release the hurricane tracking sharks because we’re officially in the dreaded “cone of uncertainty” with Tropical Storm Erika, which is expected to arrive in our neck of the woods by Monday morning. Most models predict that Erika could be a hurricane by the time it reaches our…
So, Hurricane Danny was a thing last week that ended up being nothing (for us in South Florida, anyway). But another disturbance has emerged right behind Danny that is projected to get at least 200 miles of our neck of the woods by the weekend and into next week. That…
It looks like, as predicted by the National Hurricane Center, Danny won’t be much of a threat to our neck of the woods after all. However, there are at least two disturbances brewing right behind Danny in the Atlantic. After reaching category 3 status as a hurricane over the weekend,…
It might be time to hit up the Home Depot for some supplies and canned tuna. Or, maybe not. Quick! Deploy the hurricane tracking sharks! The storm once known as Tropical Storm Danny has now become Hurricane Danny, making it the first hurricane to form in the Atlantic this season…
In July, Kanter Real Estate filed an application to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection agency to begin drilling for oil just south of Broward County in the Everglades. But last week, Broward County Commissioners voted unanimously to amend a state law to have individual counties decide if they would…
After 15 years of study and debate, the National Park Service last year adopted a fishing management plan that would phase out and eventually ban commercial fishing in Biscayne National Park’s 170,000 acres, and last month adopted a management plan that established a 10,500-acre marine reserve — a no-fishing zone —…
An environmental group is asking supporters to call Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson out on a bipartisan bill meant to streamline regulations on ballast water discharged by ships that come into port. Bilge water is the mix of salt water, fresh water, chemicals and sludge that accumulates within a…
The whole of South Florida is experiencing major drought, with parts of Eastern Broward County suffering drier than normal rainy conditions for this time of year. According to the Environmental Planning and Community Resilience Division, eastern parts of the county ads under Stage 3 drought conditions. The rest of Broward…
Don’t look now but a tropical wave has formed in the Atlantic and it’s kinda heading right for us. It’s too early to say what exactly will become of this thing but the National Hurricane Center says that the tropical wave is moving at a westwardly slant and, according to…
