Join more than 4,000 individual volunteers and 300 conservation and civic organizations from across the state working to put the Florida Water and Land Conservation Amendment on the November 2014 ballot: North Central Florida Events & Locations July 28 – August 4 Scroll down for your county to see great events locations near you! ALACHUA…
Referencing a new paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Ben Strauss of Climate Central analyzes the growth and implications of the “locked-in amount of sea level rise.” He has created an interactive map where users can click on a region and view the future effect of sea level…
North Central Florida Events & Locations Scroll down for your county to see great events locations near you! ALACHUA NEED VOLUNTEERS! Chili Pepper Festival at 441 Farmers Market, 5920 NW 13th St, Gainesville; Saturday July 27, 8:30am-1:00pm; Sign up today! Free Friday: Bo Diddley Community Plaza; Every Friday 8pm-10pm; Sign up today! Paynes Prairie, at…
Alternet: Every state has something shameful to hide. But Florida is the weirdest state. It’s one thing to go online and look at the latest “Crazy Florida” lists or “Weird Florida” tours. If you Google, “Why is Florida,” before you type in another letter, it fills in, “so crazy,” “so hot,” “so weird.” But joking aside, if you drive south from Alabama and Georgia…
National Geographic: Five hundred years ago in June, the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon started his journey back to Puerto Rico from Florida after becoming the first European to land on mainland America. After exploring the east coast of Florida, he circled the peninsula and explored the west coast, including modern-day Charlotte Harbor (see…
Heat is one of the leading weather-related killer in the United States, resulting in hundreds of fatalities each year. In the disastrous heat wave of 1980, more than 1,250 people died. In the heat wave of 1995 more than 700 deaths in the Chicago area were attributed to heat, making this the deadliest weather event…
Late last week, a chemist found what might be an important clue in the ongoing mystery surrounding mass animal deaths in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon: Multiple unknown toxins, isolated from algae in the lagoon, that kill mammalian cells. But despite widespread media coverage implying the case is all but closed, the toxins are just one…
The Florida Water and Land Legacy Campaign, a coalition that includes the Trust for Public Land, Audubon Florida, the Florida Wildlife Federation, the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, 1000 Friends of Florida, Defenders of Wildlife and other groups are working to get an amendment on the 2014 ballot to preserve Florida’s natural beauty and its…
Over a hundred people showed up for a rally and march in Jacksonville, Florida to protest the George Zimmerman not guilty verdict. The peaceful protest began in Hemming Plaza with several speakers, songs, and chants of “Justice for Trayvon.” From there, the demonstrators marched to the Duval County courthouse. The event organizers did not have…
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