UPDATED 2018-01-10: The reaction to Ryan Zinke’s announcement that the Trump administration was proposing to open 90% of the United States’ coastlines to offshore oil drilling was met with swift and deafening objections across the country. Almost as swiftly, Zinke said yesterday evening that there will NOT be any drilling leases sold for Florida’s coasts. Zinke […]
Frost Science Awarded 2 Grants to Improve Miami’s Coastal Resiliency
Resilient Communities 2017 Grant Phillip and Patricia Frost Science Museum is one of eight non-profit organizations nationwide to receive a 2017 Resilient Communities grant. In October, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and Wells Fargo announced $2 million in grants to organizations engaged in community efforts to “prepare for future impacts associated with sea […]
60 Years Ago: Snow in Miami #TBT
On January 19, 1977, it snowed in Miami. Forecaster Ray Biedinger looked at the screen of his trusty weather radar in the wee hours of Jan. 19, 1977, and knew what he had to do. The bitter cold front barreling south across the state during his midnight shift at the old National Weather Service office, […]
Adopt-a-Tree This Saturday, September 17
This Saturday, September 17, is the last Adopt-a-Tree Community Forestry Project event for the 2016 season. The first took place in June and the second was in August. The Adopt-a-Tree program provides Miami-Dade single-family or duplex homeowners with two FREE trees every year, even if they have adopted trees in previous years. Trees reduce air-conditioning costs by […]
National Park Service is 100 Years Old Today
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby created in the Department of the Interior a service to be called the National Park Service… 100 years ago today the National Park Service was born. The new federal bureau took over the […]
FREE Tree Give-Away Saturday, August 27
This Saturday, August 27, is the second Adopt-a-Tree Community Forestry Project event for the 2016 season. The first took place in June. The Adopt-a-Tree program provides Miami-Dade single-family or duplex homeowners with two FREE trees every year, even if they have adopted trees in previous years. Trees reduce air-conditioning costs by providing shade, while a good landscape […]