Using a "patient monitoring" device attached to a whale entangled in fishing gear, scientists showed for the first time how fishing lines changed a whale's diving and swimming behavior. The monitoring revealed how fishing ...

Biology - Ecology

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Strapped to Billy Bullard's hip was a machete he'd bought at a yard sale. In his fist were 4-foot-long metal snake tongs. Attached to the tongs was a high-resolution waterproof camera he called a "snake-cam."

Biology - Ecology

Feb 27, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

NOAA has added a new service to alert the public when red tides threaten human health at Tampa Bay area beaches. The new alert is timely since many of southwest Florida's beaches are experiencing or are under threat of red ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 04, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists teamed with Broward County students today to release beneficial beetles that are proving to be an effective biological control against the air ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 24, 2012 not rated yet 0

(AP)—Rescuers are struggling to help a pod of pilot whales that beached at a South Florida state park.

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Sep 02, 2012 not rated yet 0

Florida's approach to saving gopher tortoises from extinction a decade ago allowed developers to bury the docile reptiles alive in their burrows in return for what critics called "blood money" that was used to buy and protect ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 23, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- People aren't the only ones in Florida who don't like cold weather. Manatees - those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails - are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 30, 2010 4 / 5 (5) 76

Magnets taped to the heads of captured crocodiles could keep them from returning to South Florida neighborhoods where they're not wanted, state wildlife officials said Monday.

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