• Environmentalists are protesting the appointment of a new executive director to the South Florida Water Management District.
They say Pete Antonacci’s appointment is another example of growing state influence in Florida’s five water districts.
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• A rescued orphan manatee continues her rehabilitation at SeaWorld. The 2-week-old calf was found alone in the Tomoka River.
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• The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission approved new guidelines Wednesday for managing the state’s growing panther population.
The guidelines call for greater federal involvement and more land to accommodate panthers on the move.
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• It’s another record year for green sea turtle nests at the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge.
Researchers have counted more than 12,000 nests this season, a remarkable turnaround for the endangered species that a few decades ago was near the brink.
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• Environmentalists plan to clone a 2,000-year-old bald cypress tree in Seminole County that is believed to be among the world’s oldest.
The soaring cypress known as Lady Liberty is part of an effort to clone the world’s oldest trees and rebuild depleted forests with the sturdiest saplings.
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• NASA says the world’s seas are rising at uneven rates and even are retreating in some places.
But the space agency says it can’t predict how fast sea levels will rise in the future in part because melting ice sheets aren’t well-understood.
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• Florida’s $20 million dollar rose industry is threatened by a disease that’s devastating the flower across the Eastern United States.
Researchers are working on a cure before the disease spreads in Florida, the nation’s fourth-largest producer of roses.
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