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Fossil fuels vs. solar: Which should power Florida to lower energy bills? (opens the original)
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Updated September 29, 2026 at 7:53 AM EDT Thaddeus Williams, 75, is sifting through months of electric bills strewn across his kitchen table. The single parent rents a 1920s two bed, one-bath home built in Tampa's South Seminole Heights neighborhood, which he's paid up to $340 to power for just one month. Williams is a retired veteran living off Social Security. Electricity is his second-highest expense after rent, he said. Williams reads through the list of 10 or so charges on his Tampa Electri
Florida scientists are raising funds to rapidly respond to invasive plant pests and diseases (opens the original)
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Florida researchers are raising money to create a rapid response fund to battle invasive pests discovered in Florida's agricultural fields. Non-native bugs can hitch a ride on all kinds of plant material being shipped through the state's nearly 30 ports. Edward "Gilly" Evans, director of the UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, said Florida gets about one new pest or plant disease every month. "The problem is that when these pests or diseases enter the country, we have to
How Florida is challenging climate change in textbooks, while quietly updating its science standards (opens the original)
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Had Florida's high school marine biology students read the original draft of their textbook, they would have learned about research that found climate change is killing at least 150,000 people per year, and another 1 degree Celsius of warming would double that. Instead, they learned "human health will also be affected by the increase in CO2 and another 1 degree Celsius will further increase the impact." In another spot in McGraw Hill's Marine Science book, "climate change" was altered to "change
Florida Wildlife Corridor has 1,500 more acres preserved for panthers to roam in Highlands County (opens the original)
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In Florida's Heartland, hundreds of acres are newly conserved as part of the Florida Wildlife Corridor, which is roughly 18 million acres — stretching from the Everglades up to Georgia and Alabama. "It is sort of a green highway, if you will, throughout our state that wildlife use to roam," said Traci Deen, president and CEO of Conservation Florida. Shielding this land from development protects green space, water quality, and endangered species like the Florida panther. ALSO READ: Florida Foreve
Tour USF's Keys Marine Lab, which expanded capacity for rescued corals after extreme heat (opens the original)
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Off U.S. 1 in the Middle Florida Keys is a common-looking white, two-story building. To the right of it is a gate and a couple smaller structures. Vacationers driving past this spot, on their way to Key West, may not realize all the work that goes on beyond that gate to keep the attractions they're seeking alive. The Keys Marine Lab is University of South Florida's southernmost campus. It's operated by the Florida Institute of Oceanography, a consortium of 34 universities, institutions, and stat
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