Climate Change: Untold profits, utter devastation
Walking along the Riverwalk trail to Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, it is alarming to see heavy construction and drilling equipment for a …
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Miami-Dade parks in contest to renovate site for Earth Month
MIAMI — This Earth Month, the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), Disney/ABC Television Group and ESPN are collaborating to revitalize parks across the United …
Protest in the Everglades
PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE VAUGHN For five history-making days, from March 28 through April 2, at the ambitious rate of 15 miles per day, upwards …
S. FL. Paradise never loved
Spreading between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the lush green peninsula of South Florida sits like a precious emerald with the Caribbean …
President’s $2 billion request will foster black’s use of parks
If money is our measure of worth, then the news that President Obama proposed an additional $2 billion in his 2016 budget to fund the …
Save the trees: New campaign against deforestation launched
By KARL RITTER STOCKHOLM — Since the money raised by governments and corporations hasn’t managed to halt the destruction of the world’s rainforests — an area …
After the flood & before the rising sea
In the decade I was born our nation of 128 million people was in the grip of one of the first great man-made ecological disasters …
‘47 Flood & Climate Change: Like Sleeping With the Enemy
As a young boy growing up in “colored town” west of the railroad tracks in Dania I lived through the great flood of 1947 that …
A long-term view of our changing environment
A few years after my wife Audrey and I had the eye-opening experiences that made us into advocates for the environment, I asked my mother: …