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A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport has started amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit.
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How do these Aedes female mosquitos find the perfect site to lay their eggs? Research shows that they rely on one another for good reviews of breeding sites.
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Within 100 years, about 75% of the current gopher tortoise population could disappear. Despite these calculations, the federal agency denied Endangered Species Act protection to the Eastern population of gopher tortoises in the U.S.
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Records obtained by WLRN from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission show state staff scrambling to respond to an alarming number of sick and dead sawfish, with as many as seven reports on a single day. As of March 20, 27 have been confirmed dead.
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Florida’s house and senate are poised to pass the strongest consumer protections in state history for a problem-plagued home loan program touted to help homeowners pay for energy efficiency projects.
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Florida legislators and in several other states want to restrict the manufacture or sale of meat made in a laboratory, even though it barely exists. The space industry disagrees.
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The U.S. Army Corps has begun designing a resilience plan across the island where nearly all its homes face a severe risk of flooding from hurricanes.
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Young climate activists from around the state advocated for bills that would encourage things like mangrove planting and worker protections for rising heat.
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For many drivers of EVs in Florida — the nation’s second largest market for electrical vehicles — premature tire wear has become an unexpected black mark on vehicles promoted as a green climate-friendly option to gas-gulping cars.
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Stormwater runoff ponds, most have been found to constantly emit greenhouse gases that contribute carbon dioxide to global warming
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For more than a century, people have placed a wide assortment of objects on the seafloor off the U.S. coast to provide habitat for marine life and recreational opportunities for fishing and diving.
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Supporters of making changes argue that utility customers who live outside municipal boundaries can face higher costs — without being able to vote for city leaders who set rates and make other utility decisions.