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We're revisiting a conversation we had with Dr. Terry Root, she is a senior fellow emerita at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford…

The thawing diplomatic relationship between the United States and Cuba is opening the door to expanded research opportunities including an ongoing study…

The persistent and growing problem of plastics in our environment is becoming increasingly clear. We're sitting down with a local who man who has spent…

The persistent and growing problem of plastics in our environment is becoming increasingly clear. We're revisiting a conversation we had with a local who…

Hurricanes often have tremendous impacts on human lives – they destroy or severely damage homes, destroy crops, destroy or greatly alter the landscape we live in, and even injure or kill us. The impacts of hurricanes on other living creatures can be equally dramatic and harsh. Hurricane winds can take birds such as Black Skimmers and Magnificent Frigatebirds well inland and away from their natural habitats. They can also carry small creatures such as the tiny fly known as the “baldcypress twig gall midge”, seeds, and disease-causing microorganisms to new areas where they might become established in a very different ecosystem. While such displaced creatures sometimes seriously harm local creatures. It is likely that most of the time the creature in a new environment doesn’t survive. But sometimes they do – and relationships among creatures in the new environment adjust to a new equilibrium.

Conservation photographer Ian Wilson-Navarro was born in Miami but has lived his entire life in Key Largo. He got his first camera as a teenager, and first visited the Dry Tortugas around that same time camping and fishing with his father. In 2021, he and a friend were chosen for a National Parks Arts Foundation artist residency in the Dry Tortugas on Loggerhead Key. His proposal for the residency pitched the idea of capturing images to create a book, and that book is now out. "Dry Tortugas: Stronghold of Nature" was published last month by University Press of Florida. It features about 200 of his photographs along with essays by people with intimate knowledge of the park who explore its history, culture, and environment.

Research shows that suppressing melatonin production through excessive night lighting, especially blue light, leads health effects including an increase in certain endocrine-related carcinomas. It is now well known that circadian disturbance causes a 20–30% increase in breast cancer rates, and a similar increase in prostate cancers. We discuss the nexus between light pollution and human health, the environment, and public safety with part-time Naples resident, Dr. Mario Motta.

Hummingbirds – the smallest of birds and unique to the Americas – have been likened to jewels and in the 1800s stuffed ones were even worn as jewels might…