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Conservation groups are pressing for new protections for the endangered North Atlantic right whale - the whales' birthing territory stretches the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Cape Canaveral.
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Advocacy groups say the nation’s disaster response system isn’t ready as climate change leads to more extreme calamities.
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A new study shows that a component of human urine can help with seagrass restoration.
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ORLANDO, Fla.—For Janét Buford-Johnson, it was as if all the homes on her street had been turned inside out by Hurricane Ian. “The neighborhood looks like a disaster area,” she said.
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Last year was the worst ever when it comes to the number of manatee deaths in Florida, and an environmental group says this year likely will be the second-worst.
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Hurricane Ian is responsible for between $787 million and nearly $1.6 billion in agriculture losses in Florida, according to a preliminary estimate.
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In central Florida, widespread flooding still is receding more than two weeks after Hurricane Ian.In one neighborhood, the only road in and out remains washed out, leaving many residents stranded.
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Agriculture is a major industry in Florida and Hurricane Ian destroyed farms, killed livestock and toppled citrus trees. Farmers have faced challenges before and vow to come out stronger.
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KISSIMMEE, Fla.—Jason Diaz awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of trickling water.Outside his first-floor apartment where he had slept, Hurricane Ian moved violently and slowly over the Florida interior, dropping monumental amounts of rain on the low-slung landscape pockmarked everywhere with lakes and rivers, ponds and canals.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that Florida’s gopher tortoise population does not meet the criteria for protections under the Endangered Species Act.