'It's never been this bad.' How Helene devastated Pinellas County ...
2024年9月28日 · How Helene devastated Pinellas County beaches. Andrew Swan, 31, rode out the storm on Madeira Beach watching over a friend’s house. He said the water rushed in the house last night up to his chest and he spent the night sleeping on a kitchen counter with his legs over the stove. Andrew Swan didn’t think things would be this bad.
U.S. plan doubles the acres designated as critical habitat for …
2024年9月24日 · The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday announced a plan to more than double the critical habitat designated for manatees in Florida to 1.9 million acres. The proposed revisions also include a new designation of 78,121 acres in Puerto Rico for the Antillean manatee. In Florida, the lands affected are 34% federal, 57% state, 7% local ...
The effort to contain mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses in ...
2024年9月23日 · The Florida Department of Health has issued a statewide mosquito-borne illness advisory after four locally contracted cases of malaria were reported along the Gulf Coast south of Tampa. Burkett-Cadena said with different areas of Florida getting above- or below-average rainfall this year, the number of mosquitoes varies.
The war is in Gaza, but Palestinians in the West Bank are targeted …
6 天之前 · In the year since the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel last Oct. 7 – which Israel says killed around 1,200 people and sparked the current war in Gaza, which has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians – violence by Israeli settlers and the Israeli military has also erupted against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
A new way to support grandparents raising kids affected by the ...
3 天之前 · More than 2.5 million children in the U.S. are raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other extended family members — when their parents are unable to care for them. Happy shouts and laughter fill the cafeteria at Locust Grove Baptist Church in New Market, Alabama — a small town just outside of Huntsville, in the northern part of the state.
There’s a wrinkle — or many — in the story behind an elephant’s …
5 天之前 · A couple months into development, the fetal trunk has about four wrinkles — at which point there’s sudden exponential growth. “Every 20 days, the number of wrinkles doubles,” he says. After a few months, things slow down. “African [savannah] elephants only add relatively few wrinkles in adulthood,” Brecht says.
Misinformation may harm hurricane response efforts, experts say
3 天之前 · Misinformation can lead to people being fearful of those who are trying to help them. “Federal, state and local officials have said that these false claims can cause confusion and hinder emergency response efforts. And people living in areas affected by these disasters may be discouraged from seeking help because of this misinformation.”.
My parents once worked 7 days a week. Now, they’re reclaiming …
5 天之前 · Courtesy of the family. Cecilia and Gerardo Gallardo at Matanzas, Jalisco’s 2024 Mexican Independence Day parade. Growing up, my parents worked seven days a week. My father was a factory worker Monday through Friday and both worked as janitors in the evenings and weekends. For decades they cleaned an assortment of public and commercial ...
A well-known Tallahassee attorney pens a handbook to help …
3 天之前 · A vote sign and American flag are shown outside a Michigan primary election location in Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Michigan is the last major primary state before Super Tuesday and a critical swing state in November's general election.
The U.S. gets a new national marine sanctuary, the first led by a tribe
4 天之前 · The Biden administration is creating a new national marine sanctuary, which will be the third largest in the U.S. The sanctuary is also the first to be led by Indigenous people. It was nominated by members of the Northern Chumash Tribe, who drove the effort for more than decade to protect the rugged coastline that is their historical homeland.