Everglades
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Remember the legacy of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Florida environmentalist
“She was interested in what you loved and what inspired you, she wanted you to fight for it and preserve it and make it better."
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Florida’s best defense against natural disasters is nature
The key to fighting hurricanes? Just act natural.
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Vultures will eat your car
If they don’t eat it, they will at very least poop all over it.
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Giant pythons are taking over the Everglades
Last week, researchers at the University of Florida got a present — a gigantic Burmese python, the largest anyone had ever found in the Everglades. The good news: It was dead. The bad news: It weighed 164 pounds, measured a record 17.5 feet in length, and was a foot wide. For context, that’s as long […]
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Why the hell does Michele Bachmann want to drill for oil in the Everglades?
Michele Bachman wants to drill for oil "whether that is in the Everglades or whether that is in the Eastern Gulf region or whether that is in North Dakota." Even Republicans think this is kind of nuts, because even Republicans are willing to agree that the Everglades has some nice stuff that it'd be darn shame to ruin forever. But for Bachmann, it's a "wonderful treasure trove of energy that God has given us in this country."
If you're thinking, oil in the Gulf … ok; oil in North Dakota … sure, I read that New Yorker article; but … is there even oil the Everglades?? … well, we're with you. A federally employed geologist told a local Florida TV station that "there is no known evidence that there is a significant hydrocarbon deposit beneath the Everglades."
But the Associated Press reports that there is one tract of privately owned land where oil was found in 1943. -
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Florida Everglades restoration now a bailout for U.S. Sugar
Cypress trees in the Everglades. Photo: National Park ServiceThe New York Times published a monster investigative piece Monday on the disaster that is the Everglades Restoration Project. In some ways, it distills much of what’s wrong with both corporate and government culture in this country. Fun fact: the key beneficiary of the restoration plan will […]
