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In this week’s encore essay from News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams, she recalls several months spent caring for a rather charismatic specimen…

The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is a tiny gray-and-white bird with a black tail found throughout Florida in winter, and through most of the state during the…

Perhaps the fastest lizard in Florida, the Six-lined Racerunner lives up to its name and is even adorned with racing stripes. This up to 8.5 inch,…

We’ve been hearing more and more stories lately about the various places plastics are showing up in our environment. Stories of dead dolphins washing…

We’ve been hearing more and more stories lately about the various places plastics are showing up in our environment. Stories of dead dolphins washing…

The prevalence of plastics throughout our environment should come as no surprise to anyone by now. Researchers continue to find it in remote places on our…

Waterlilies are residents of placid waters, adding to the calm and beauty of their habitat. Some waterlilies are with us year round. Others, such as the…

There are 490 sites on the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail - which means there’s likely one near you. Learn where they are, and what you might to…

A trip to the beach is made pleasurable by the soothing rhythm of the ocean, the wind singing through the sand and sea oats, and, by the aerial antics of…

It is officially mosquito season here in southwest Florida. But, what we experience these days is nothing like what we’d experience if it weren’t for…