1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (348+ words) The Peace and Caloosahatchee rivers contain some of the nation’s most important nursery habitats for the endangered smalltooth sawfish. The strange-looking fish, with the hedge trimmer-like "saw" extending out from their heads, rely on that ever-changing mixing zone in the…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (255+ words) You need not travel far to hear how nature throughout Florida can recover from future disturbances. A Punta Gorda conference on helping people and agencies recover from future extreme weather events is scheduled for September. The 2026 Southwest Florida Resiliency Summit…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (447+ words) Ned Hancock wants to get into heaven, so he’s not selling. A generational citrus grower and cattleman in the Peace River Valley in Hardee County, Hancock remembers his great-aunt drilling into his head the wisdom of holding onto and working…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1579+ words) Up until the early 1900s about three-quarters of Florida’s southern coast, from about Tampa Bay on the Gulf side around to The Indian River Lagoon on the Atlantic Ocean, was covered with, and protected by mangroves. After coastal development took off…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (890+ words) In 2023 and 2024, the Florida Keys experienced a marine heat wave that caused a 98% to 100% catastrophic mortality in staghorn and elkhorn corals. The corals are so named because the animals grow into branches that can look like the horns of their…...

1+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (352+ words) An international union of conservation groups and governments has determined gopher tortoises are more at risk of extinction than ever before. The U.S. government does not agree. The International Union for Conservation of Nature revised the animal’s status from “vulnerable” to…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (143+ words) Red-bellied Woodpeckers are the most commonly seen woodpeckers in Florida in part because they are generalists that forage for insects, spiders, small lizards, and fruit in trees and on the ground in our yards and parks. Unfortunately, they are about…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1781+ words) Two decades ago this summer, a bottlenose dolphin made international headlines after he was spotted swimming through Sarasota Bay wearing an extra-large men’s Speedo. The dolphin, named Scrappy, was found caught in the swimsuit, unable to escape as the fabric…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (229+ words) “Geometry of Emotion” is a collection of artworks that translate complex emotional states such as love, joy, anxiety and grief into geometrical shapes, planes and topographies. Ninety-five-year-old Naples-based contemporary artist Joan Sonnenberg has several pieces in the show. Her compositions,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (541+ words) Few people other than the sea turtle staff at the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation knew that Pat Benatar was a frequent visitor to Captiva Island. Imagine the sadness the rescue team felt when it was called to the shoreline a few…...