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A new app called Too Good To Go gives customers a chance to buy bags of perfectly edible food at cut-rate prices as an innovative way to reduce food waste.
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WLRN environmental editor Jenny Staletovich and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Patrick Farrell talk about what it was like to wade through the muck of the Everglades to check on the decades-long battle to make the River of Grass work as nature intended.
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South Florida’s drainage canals are overwhelmed by king tides, and sea rise could only worsen the issue.
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The deaths account for one third of the total in the state so far this year.
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A Florida International University’s Martina Potlach, whose studies marry landscape design and ecology, gave ideas on how to reconceptualize how shorelines work if humans are to live in coastal South Florida as storms intensify and the sea moves in.
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When the potentially record-high heat wave swept Florida in July, thousands of corals were rescued and relocated to land-based facilities to avoid bleaching. Now as the temperature drops to normal levels, healthy corals are ready to go back to their offshore nurseries.
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November is Manatee Awareness month. It's especially poignant for Lee County, which leads Florida with more than 100 sea cow deaths so far this year.
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More trees in the low-income region in the western part of Palm Beach County could help fight climate change, thanks to a $1 million EPA environmental justice grant.
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The storm ripped through the Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm, devastating the town's fishing and boating community.
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The Everglades is dying. Our new podcast looks at the struggle to save it — and the costs of failureIn 2000, the U.S. set out on one of the most ambitious environmental projects ever attempted: to wind back the clock and make the Everglades function like it once did — in 1900. The plan could have given Florida a 20-year head start on climate change, but that didn't happen. Listen to WLRN's new podcast series Bright Lit Place.
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The Key deer is losing the only place it lives, raising uncomfortable questions for the people tasked with keeping endangered species alive.
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One in four people, or 1.9 billion, experienced a five-day heat wave, at minimum, influenced by carbon pollution.