Florida’s sandy beaches and beautiful coastlines helped make it the fastest-growing state in the country last year. About 4 million people live in the region extending from Citrus County to Sarasota — about a fifth of the state’s population. The Tampa Bay metro area’s population has swelled by more thanContinue Reading
Bottlenose dolphins, the marine mammals best known for doing clever tricks in animal parks, have created a home in the Bay Area after previously spending their lives in Southern California and Baja, Mexico. Surfers catch waves with them at Ocean Beach, hikers have spotted their mottled gray backs at StinsonContinue Reading
FLYING 1,000 FEET ABOVE TREASURE ISLAND — “We’re coming up on a bloom right now.” There it was, just as the maps had predicted: A rust-colored Red Tide bloom came into view offshore of John’s Pass, nestled between Madeira Beach and Treasure Island in Pinellas County. On this overcast SaturdayContinue Reading
ON TAMPA BAY — Quenton Tuckett hopes he doesn’t find them. But he knows they’re here. His boat is a few hundred feet from the enchanting mangrove islands of Cockroach Bay, on the southeast shoreline of Tampa Bay near Ruskin. On this cool Monday morning, it’s clear how Cockroach BayContinue Reading
The GBA boasts a significant number of innovative, growing and profitable private enterprises which together comprise what is sometimes referred to as the “Factory of the World” and present significant investment potential China aiming to close the gap in advanced technologies will boost GBA as a high-tech region Investcorp andContinue Reading
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a decision that sheds harsh light on the state’s commitment to environmental justice amid growing drought anxiety, the California Coastal Commission has granted conditional approval to a controversial Monterey Bay desalination project that even the commission’s own staff said would unfairly burden a historically underservedContinue Reading
If you’re planning to spend your weekend on or around the water, should you be worried that small amounts of the organism that causes Red Tide were just detected in Tampa Bay? We asked that question to the experts who spend their professional lives studying and mapping Red Tide. TheContinue Reading
Microparticles recovered from the guts of some seabirds living in Monterey Bay exhibited estrogen-like effects that have the potential to disrupt normal hormone functions © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes An adult common murre, or common guillemot (Uria aalge), in flight. This is a large auk with aContinue Reading
A new autonomous robot that collects floating waste from harbors started its first job Monday at the Point San Pablo Harbor in Richmond. Called the Plastics Piranha and dreamed up by college students from Cincinnati, the fully electric device can collect 100 pounds of garbage at a time. While theContinue Reading
Months after the Bay du Nord offshore oil project in Newfoundland was approved by the federal government, environmental groups are continuing their campaign against the project, taking their fight to the courts and the company’s offices in Norway. Opponents of the project hope that Equinor, the company leading the projectContinue Reading
