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  1. Thousands of Florida’s ‘nuisance alligators’ are killed each year. Is it necessary?
    Yesterday• Environment
    Alligator trapper Phil Walters (standing) and a colleague remove an alligator from the Hillsborough River at Water Works Park in Tampa earlier this month.
  2. Wildlife officials weigh new rules at Skyway Fishing Pier to curb bird entanglements
    Nov. 23• Environment
    Anglers fish along the North Sunshine Skyway Fishing Pier on Wednesday in St. Petersburg. Wildlife officials are considering new rules to prevent seabird entanglements at the Skyway Fishing Pier.
  3. Miss the Tampa Riverwalk behind the convention center? It’ll be awhile longer
    Nov. 22• Environment
    A look at the Tampa Riverwalk behind the Tampa Convention Center last year, when a portion of the Riverwalk closed for construction.
  5. Poisons killed beloved owls in Tampa Bay. Can their defenders save others?
    Nov. 22• News
    A great horned owlet, left, and its mother share a rat on March 2 in Philippe Park in Safety Harbor. Within days, both would die.
  6. Think you have a rodent problem, Tampa Bay? Here’s what to do.
    Nov. 22• Investigations
    Joe Rufin with Creepy Creatures Termite and Pest Control, of Palm Harbor, organizes blocks of rodenticide while preparing a bait station as he worked to exterminate rodents from a condominium complex on Aug. 18 in Clearwater. The rodenticide is made with cholecalciferol, which is not among the anticoagulants that local wildlife advocates are trying to get off the street.
  7. The owls of Philippe Park
    Nov. 21• Photos
    Dewey, Huey and Louie rest on the branch of a live oak tree on Feb 27, 2022, at Philippe Park in Safety Harbor.
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  8. Endangered status sought for manatees as hundreds starve
    Nov. 21• Environment
    Manatees that are dying by the hundreds mainly from pollution-caused starvation in Florida should once again be listed as an endangered species, environmental groups said Monday in a petition seeking the change.
  9. Hurricanes knock out traffic lights. Could a Tampa solar sidewalk change that?
    Nov. 18• Environment
    A pedestrian walks on a sidewalk of solar panels that power the traffic signal at the intersection of Cass and Jefferson streets in downtown Tampa.
  10. Clearwater aquarium says sea turtle nests are up, but lights from humans are a danger
    Nov. 18• Life & Culture
    A biologist from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium helps a recently hatched sea turtle find its way from the beach to the water. While sea turtle nests are up this year, the aquarium reported an alarming number of times the hatchlings were confused by artificial lights and headed to hotels and garages instead of the ocean.
  11. Small amounts of Red Tide were just measured in Tampa Bay. Should we be worried?
    Nov. 18• Environment
    Dead fish are seen along Madeira Beach during a Red Tide bloom at Madeira Beach in June 2021.
  12. Hillsborough adds 487 acres to south county preserve for $11.4 million
    Nov. 16• Environment
    Hillsborough County will spend $10.24 million for this 487-acre cattle ranch in Wimauma to add to the Little Manatee River environmental corridor. The property, owned by Bickett Holdings of Kentucky, is on Flowers Road.
  13. Florida wildlife officials will feed manatees again this winter to curb die-off
    Nov. 16• Florida
    A group of manatees are pictured in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power & Light plant warms the water. Fewer manatee deaths have been recorded so far this year in Florida compared to the record-setting numbers in 2021 but wildlife officials cautioned that chronic starvation remains a dire and ongoing threat to the marine mammals.
  14. Viral video captured a rattlesnake under a Tampa Bay bridge. How rare is that?
    Nov. 15• Hurricane
    A rattlesnake sits on a platform under the Tierra Verde Bridge on Thursday, Oct. 27. This screenshot of a video taken by Capt. Brett Norris shows the roughly 4-foot snake stretched out over the busy boat channel.
  15. Drone footage shows Hurricane Nicole’s erosion on Florida east coast
    Nov. 14• Environment
    Forty-eight hours after Hurricane Nicole made landfall near Vero Beach as a Category 1 storm, residents of Daytona Beach Shores began to assess the damage wrought by intense coastal erosion. Beach boardwalks and coastal infrastructure were washed away by hours of surging seas. From the air, scenes of strewn debris, damaged hotels and homes now at-risk from erosion begin to come to light. Volusia County faced the northern portion of the storm, which brought the strongest gusts and turbulent seas.
  16. Tropical Storm Nicole brings heavy rain and wind to Tampa Bay
    Nov. 10• Environment
    Trey Harbord, 12, of Clearwater, settles into the surf with his sister, Gracie, 15, while exploring the stormy conditions brought on by Tropical Storm Nicole, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022 in Clearwater Beach.
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  17. Red Tide reached Anna Maria this week. Will Hurricane Nicole make it worse?
    Nov. 9• Hurricane
    Red Tide warning were signs posted on local public beaches during a past algal bloom.
  18. As winter looms, 3 orphaned manatees shipped from ZooTampa to Cincinnati
    Nov. 9• Environment
    Soleil and Piccolina are seen in the back of the ZooTampa Manatee Rescue Team’s transport truck as they prepare to transfer three female orphaned manatees to the Cincinnati Zoo for continued care on Saturday.
  19. Tropical Storm Nicole: Florida closing 12 campgrounds in Pasco, Citrus and Sumter counties
    Nov. 8• Hurricane
  20. UN chief, Gore, others give heated warnings in climate talks
    Nov. 8• Environment
    Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, center right, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center left, leave after a group photo at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday.
  21. Highly toxic algal bloom prompts health alert for Moody Lake in Pasco County
    Nov. 7• Pasco
    A harmful algal bloom was photographed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection on Wednesday on Moody Lake in Pasco County.
  22. Cyclist captures video of escaped monkey on Pinellas Trail in Palm Harbor
    Nov. 7• Environment
    Jack, a 30-year-old black-capped capuchin monkey, escaped from Suncoast Primate Sanctuary on Sunday. This screenshot of a video by Natani Daehne shows a cyclist watching the runaway primate.
  23. Equipment that’s designed to cut methane emission is failing
    Nov. 5• Environment
    Sharon Wilson points a thermal imaging camera towards a compressor station in Arlington, Texas, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. Wilson, a field advocate for Earthworks, which promotes alternatives to fossil fuels, uses the camera to detect methane leaks at oil and gas facilities.
  24. Hundreds of elephants, zebras die as Kenya weathers worst drought in decades
    Nov. 4• Environment
    An elephant that was killed by Kenya Wildlife Service rangers after it killed a woman as it was looking for water and food amid the drought, lies in Loolkuniyani, Samburu County in Kenya on Oct. 16. Hundreds of animals have died in Kenyan wildlife preserves during East Africa's worst drought in decades, according to a report released Friday.
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