Valerie Vande Panne

We are all connected by the environment we share. The Earth is our home. This is the space where we share the environmental stories that caught our attention this week, in Florida and beyond.

We are all connected by the environment we share. The Earth is our home. This is the space where we share the environmental stories that caught our attention this week, in Florida and beyond.

As House Bills 421 and 1101 await the Governor’s signature, some in the environmental community are expressing concerns about their effect on the environment. The bills are meant to be an expansion of the Bert Harris act--but it turns out, they do much more.

It’s love bug season, again, and that means different things to different people--especially when it comes to their cars.

It turns out those masks we’ve gotten accustomed to wearing have another benefit, besides reducing the spread of COVID-19.

We are all connected by the environment we share. The Earth is our home. This is the space where we share the environmental stories that caught our attention this week, in Florida and beyond.

State officials are doubling their funding for Florida wildlife officials to help manatees recover from what appears to be a mass die-off due to starvation.

The new normal temperature of the United States is now one degree hotter than just 20 years ago. The AP reports, the normal annual temperature, based on data from 1991 to 2020, is now 53.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Two decades ago, normal was 52.3 degrees Farenheit.

A new septic-to-sewer program in Estero is hoped to reduce the amount of fecal matter that pollutes the village's waterways.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that will expand legal protections for agricultural operations. Passed by both the Florida House and Senate, the bill (SB 88) expands the state’s 1979 “Right to Farm” law and will shield the agriculture industry from what they consider nuisance lawsuits.