Rollins College gas leak prompts evacuations
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 07:27:32 -0700 | green-news
A gas leak at Rollins College has prompted the evacuation of about half a dozen campus buildings on its Winter Park campus, according to an alert sent out by the college this morning. The "Rollins alert" on Twitter reported a...
Fisherman found dead in Osceola lake
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 16:15:45 -0700 | green-news
An Osceola County commercial fisherman died late Monday or early Tuesday when he fell overboard while trying to untangle nylon fishing lines, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said. William Platt, 64, was found floating in the Lake Marian...
What if a tornado hits here?
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 10:15:09 -0700 | green-news
Nearly a decade earlier in February 1998, seven tornadoes struck the area and killed 42 people, seriously injured 250 more and left 3,000 buildings destroyed in their wake. Unlike hurricanes, tornadoes are nearly impossible to predict and can strike with...
Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH)® Highlights Tornado Safety and Technology to Help Protect ...
Source: PR Newswire
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 15:33:25 -0700 | green-news
Weather Alerts app reliably delivers GPS, precision text-to-speech weather hazard warnings on more than 100 options from tornado to flood to wildfire and more. Most tornado damage occurs below EF4/EF5 level, so minor investments in enhanced building or rebuilding techniques...
Longest Burmese python on record captured in Florida
Source: The Naples Daily News
Miami :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 03:28:05 -0700 | green-news
A Miami man has caught and killed the longest Burmese python ever captured in Florida: 18 feet, 8 inches. The python was a 128-pound female that was not carrying eggs, according to University of Florida scientists who examined the snake....
Vacaville Planning Commission set to discuss Vanden Meadows development
Source: The Reporter
Leisure City :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 01:29:18 -0700 | green-news
That's when planning commissioners will hear about the potential development and community members will have the opportunity to voice any concerns or opinions. No action will be taken, officials confirmed, as the presentation will be informational only.
Reaching Out for a Clean Future
Source: Scoop
Wellington :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 15:28:00 -0700 | green-news
Participants will join hands across Oriental Bay to express their concern at the government's plans to allow Texan oil company Anadarko to explore for oil off Wellington's coast this summer. The Hands Across The Sand movement was begun in Florida...
GPS satellite launched into space from Florida
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 04:00:53 -0700 | green-news
An unmanned Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this afternoon. It was the fifth time since December that an unmanned Atlas V rocket has been launched. The GPS 2F-4 spacecraft will join a constellation of...
State warns of Chihuahua-killing coyote | Video
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 14:35:01 -0700 | green-news
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is working with residents of the Willow Wood community in Orlando, where a coyote recently killed a small dog for food. FWC biologist Susan Carroll-Douglas is placing signs and brochures in the neighbo...
Venice experiments with solar trash cans
Source: Herald Tribune
Venice :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-12 16:31:53 -0700 | green-news
The city of Venice's sanitation crew just got a new helper that is willing to work all day long, including weekends: Florida sunshine...You can find the solar-powered trash compactors in Michael Biehl Park and on Venice Avenue, between Nassau Street...
Wildlife Drive in 'Ding' Darling Wildlife Refuge to close for the summer
Source: The Naples Daily News
Naples :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 19:03:03 -0700 | green-news
Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island will officially close to the public for repaving on Monday, May 20...Wildlife Drive is expected to be closed through the summer and will be reopened Oct. 1. Indigo Drive will only be...
Hard landing for chopper carrying state biologists
Source: Sun Sentinel
Fort Lauderdale :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 12:37:33 -0700 | green-news
Nobody was reported hurt in the afternoon incident, said Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Terri Barbera. The biologists were conducting a deer survey in the Rotenberger Wildlife Management Area, located in the Everglades in southwestern Palm Beach County ,...
Stone crab season closes May 16 in Florida
Source: The Naples Daily News
Florida City :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 06:34:32 -0700 | green-news
A load of stone crab is weighed at Ernest Hamilton's Stone Crab in Everglades City. A poor stone crab harvest is driving up the price of the seafood delicacy. Commercial fishermen across Florida say they've never seen a season as...
State's annual hurricane conference begins
Source: Herald Tribune
Fort Lauderdale :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-05 03:53:28 -0700 | green-news
Emergency management officials from across Florida are meeting in South Florida to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season. The annual Governor's Hurricane Conference begins today with training sessions in Fort Lauderdale. Training, workshops and presentations by government officials will...
New law enforcement chief at wildlife commission
Source: SF Gate
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-04 01:51:28 -0700 | green-news
Fla. (AP) The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has a new director of law enforcement...Calvin Adams Jr. took over the post this week at the largest conservation law enforcement agency in the country...Adams replaces Jim Brown , who retired...
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