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Two USF biologists published a study last year showing that a popular spray fungicide wiped out the frog population in their research tanks.
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Elementary students get some hands-on learning as they covert a plain area into a conservation area, which is already attracting a variety of butterflies.
A Hillsborough extension service course shows homeowners how worms can do the work to create rich compost.
Learning Gate Community School wins a national environmental award for its student involvement in water conservation and
The city cites drier than normal conditions around Tampa Bay and a declaration by the Southwest Florida Water Management District for the new limits.
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County judge overturned a nearly $10,000 small-claims judgment against American Honda Motor Co. that was won by a car owner who said the automaker misrepresented the gas mileage of her hybrid Civic, according to a ruling released Wednesday.
Supporters of keeping the Friendship TrailBridge estimate $13 million for construction costs can be raised by donations, in addition to forming a nonprofit with Hillsborough County.
A newly restored corner of wetlands will soon provide protective habitat for juvenile fish and wading birds.
WASHINGTON — Potty humor just got prehistoric. A study suggests that dinosaurs might have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago.
An unattended campfire is blamed for the wind-whipped blaze that burned 117 acres in Hudson, closed U.S. 19 and forced 200 people to flee their homes.
Where lifeless, fallow farm fields once pocked the edge of Cockroach Bay, wildlife and native plants now flourish.
Manmade grass flats replace the area once used as a dumping ground for agricultural businesses, giving fish and birds a new habitat.
Joyce Lang of Seffner was inspired to become a beekeeper after not seeing the insects one day, and wanting to bring them back.
Environmental groups are warning that the "summer slime" season is approaching.
WASHINGTON — The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said today the animal never was a threat to the nation's food supply.
A BP engineer intentionally deleted more than 300 text messages saying the company's efforts to control the Gulf of Mexico oil spill were failing, and that the amount of oil leaking was far more than what the company reported, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.
TALLAHASSEE — Florida's agriculture commissioner says the entire state is at a dramatically high risk of wildfires because of a continuing drought.
Vice President Joe Biden spent the day in Florida touting the environmental and economic benefits of Everglades restoration projects.
A group of Gulf Coast shrimp processors is asking a federal judge to hold off on preliminary approval of portions of BP's proposed class-action settlement of economic damage claims spawned by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
An Ohio woman unfamiliar with Tampa Bay waters was rescued last night after she got disoriented and was stranded on a spoil island as a thunderstorm approached.
Over 21 years, the 651-acre area has been transformed from farmland and mining pits into a home for nature, including more than 300 species of birds.
New limits on smoking are definitely clearing the air at the University of South Florida.
I had been taking pictures of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for about a month before I made my first visit to Cat Island on May 22, 2010. I will never forget what I saw there.
Photos of fish with sores may raise concern about long-term environmental effects of the massive BP oil spill — but federal health officials say the Gulf seafood that's on the market is safe to eat.
Open sores. Parasitic infections. Chewed-up-looking fins. Gashes. Mysterious black streaks. Two years after the drilling-rig explosion that touched off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, scientists are beginning to suspect that fish in the Gulf of Mexico are suffering the effects of the petroleum.
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