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Activists are seeking a state constitutional amendment to give legal rights to Florida's waterways, and to guarantee all Floridians have a right to clean water.

Environmental Roundup June 4, 2021

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.

Offshore Drilling May Have Little Effect on Oil Prices

President Bush is pushing offshore drilling as a way to increase production and cut oil prices. Robert Siegel talks to Henry Lee, director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard University, who says offshore drilling may not have an immediate impact.

Studies Suggest Multilingual Exposure Boosts Children's Communication Skills

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Katherine Kinzler, associate professor of psychology and human development at Cornell University, about her research into the social skills developed by children raised in multilingual environments versus monolingual environments.

Tourists watch as workers clean oil from the sand along a strip of oil that washed up on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., in 2010 after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Louisiana coast.

Gulf Coast States Get Creative With BP Oil Spill Money

Oil giant BP has agreed to pay $1 billion for coastal restoration along the Gulf of Mexico because of the 2010 oil spill. But the nature of some of the projects, including boat ramps and a beachfront hotel, has some environmental groups raising questions about what counts as coastal restoration.

Environmental Roundup February 26, 2021

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.

In this photo taken from video, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, left, speaks to the media as speaks to the media as and Nana Malashkhia, who leads the Coalition for Change parliament list, right, stands near, after the parliamentary election in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sunday.

Georgian president won't recognize parliamentary election result, calls for protest

Observers said the election took place in a "divisive" environment marked by intimidation and instances of vote buying and physical violence.

On May 27, 2016 this white-tailed deer mother and fawn were photographed at one of our game camera sites in the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. We received a quarterly update from researchers involved in the South Florida Deer Research Project, and from April to June the team collared three deer (1 male and 2 females) at the refuge using rocket-nets and darting.

Environmental Roundup May 7, 2021

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.

Mountainside farms near Innsbruck, Austria. For centuries, grazing has preserved these meadows, with their wildflowers and birds.

EU Shifts Subsidies from Crops to Land Stewardship

Europe's farmers now get paid based not on crop production but on how they manage the environment — a fundamental change in European agricultural policy.

April 13, 2021 -- A. The entrance to a cypress tree den estimated to be about 40-50 feet above the ground. A female Florida black bear climbed this hollow tree and entered through the open top to den. She later gave birth inside the cavity that was near the ground level. B. Two FWRI bear research biologists stand at the base of the tree den listening to the sounds of a female Florida black bear and at least one cub.

Environmental Roundup April 30, 2021

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.

Nations must act on climate change or could be held responsible, top U.N. court rules

The International Court of Justice ruled that nations have an obligation to act on climate change under international laws protecting the environment and human rights.

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