PENGUINS, SEA OTTERS, OCTOPUSES, OH MY! KEYS OFFICIALS TOUR MOTE MARINE LAB’S NEW AQUARIAUM
By Jill Miranda Baker
The agenda included close encounters with sharks, rays, manatees, penguins, sea otters, octopuses, coral reef and more as a group of...
WILD THINGS: TURTLES, TURTLES, EVERYWHERE
And some days you find yourself in a room full of endangered sea turtles, most of them flapping their front flippers, trying to find...
PYTHON HUNTER PROTECTS NATIVE EVERGLADES WILDLIFE
Kym Clark did what any person would do when she saw an 18-foot python slithering across the road in Everglades National Park — she...
AGENCIES TEAM UP FOR FLORIDA’S CORAL REEF
Response to the stony coral tissue loss disease in May 2023 led several coral reef and environmental stakeholders to merge their efforts.
The Monroe County...
YACHT PARTIALLY SINKS AND SPILLS DIESEL INTO A KEY LARGO CANAL
A yacht that began to take on water Tuesday evening in a Key Largo canal became partially submerged, leaking gallons of diesel into the...
COLD-STUNNED ENDANGERED KEMP’S RIDLEY TURTLES ARRIVE IN STYLE AT THE TURTLE HOSPITAL
More than two dozen critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles arrived in the Keys on Dec. 9 to warm up and receive treatment after...
GROUND-BREAKING HONDURAS/FLORIDA KEYS HYBRID ELKHORNS PLANTED IN WORLD-FIRST EXPERIMENT OFF KEY BISCAYNE
In July, scientists outplanted very special elkhorn corals (Acropora palmata) onto a reef in Biscayne Bay. They believe these cross-bred corals, created from a...
KEYS RECYCLING: UNWRAPPING HOLIDAY WASTE
The holiday rush is here, and with it come mountains of shipping boxes, bubble wrap, shopping bags, food waste, single-use plastics and decorations.
As deliveries...
LOGGERHEAD TURTLE ‘MOLLY’ RETURNS TO THE SEA AFTER MASSIVE TUMOR REMOVAL
Onlookers gathered to celebrate a massive story of rescue and recovery as the Turtle Hospital released loggerhead turtle Molly from Higgs Beach on the...
UNWRAPPING HOLIDAY WASTE: TIPS TO KEEPING THE FLORIDA KEYS GREEN
The holiday rush is here, and with it come mountains of shipping boxes, bubble wrap, shopping bags, food waste, single-use plastics and decorations.
As deliveries...
