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  1. Heather Noreen, the founder of Climate Tours, stands with her bike outside of Maya Cafe Lounge and Gallery in Winter Park at the start of her 3,300-mile ride from Miami to Montreal.
  2. This screenshot of a video posted on Facebook by Craig Marcum of Sea Tow Venice shows a shark feasting on the carcass of a 70,000-pound sperm whale after it died off the coast of Venice. Sea Tow Venice towed the carcass 15 miles out to sea this week.
  3. Jerry Burton, 31, of Tampa, works to lay new asphalt along 49th Street North and 94th Avenue North in Pinellas Park in 2019. A new study from researchers at Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University found that Tampa is seeing the largest increase in nighttime temperatures during the fall months when compared to the biggest cities in the state.
  4. An oak leafroller inches across a pollen-speckled window in Clearwater. This caterpillar is the immature or larval stage of the oak moth.
  5. The Southwest Florida Water Management District which owns the Weekiwachee Preserve will now consider a 20-year lease for Hernando County to manage 350 acres as a passive park with walking trails and picnic pavillions. Gone is any plan to build a beach on the old mining pits on the site.
  6. Boats dye the river in front of Curtis Hixon park during the River O’ Green Festival on Friday, March 17, 2023 in Tampa.
  7. A rendering depicts the ultramodern multimillion-dollar house proposed by Azure Development LLC, featuring a four-car garage, rooftop pool and glass elevator located on one of the city’s last undeveloped stretches of coast.
  8. A manatee swims to the surface for some air at the Manatee Viewing Center at the Tampa Electric Big Bend power plant on Dec. 22, 2023, in Apollo Beach.
  9. Watering the lawn in Tampa Bay has been restricted to once a week. And the driest months have just hit.
  10. This photo provided by City of Venice Florida shows a beached whale on Sunday off Venice. The whale died early Monday, authorities said.
  11. A great blue heron in the sawgrass of the Everglades north of the Tamiami Trail on Feb. 24, 2023.
  12. This aerial picture shows the newly built floating solar power plant on the water that can generate 192 mega watts of peak electricity in cooperation between the Indonesian government and Masdar from the UAE, at Cirata Reservoir, West Java, on Nov. 9, 2023.
  13. An aerial drone view of the Florida State Fire College, at left, and the Lowell Correctional Institution, in background at right.
  14. A property owner posts a bear warning sign on private property near a recent bear attack in Anchorage, Alaska, on July 22, 2012. So long as they don't eat them, stuff them or turn them into hats for the British royal guard, Floridians will be able to kill black bears threatening them on their property with no consequences under a bill sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday.
  15. Aerial view of the Miami Seaquarium from August 2023. Miami-Dade County on Thursday gave the Seaquarium weeks to vacate its government-owned campus after a string of federal inspection reports alleged poor care of animals there.
  16. Erin Roth, left, is shown in the entrance of her porch along with her neighbor Douglas McVey at her mobile home at the Twin City manufactured home community at 10636 Gandy Blvd. N. in St. Petersburg. Pinellas County is requiring tenants to raise their homes by June or leave the park.
  17. Alyssa Andres with the Crystal River Bull Shark Project releases a young shark after gathering data on Feb. 11 in Crystal River.
  18. This photo provided by the National Park Services shows a dead right whale calf off of Georgia. The calf was the first of the year for the rare species, and federal authorities say it was killed by a collision with a ship.
  19. Dionisio Doming from Rolling Green Landscape uses a gas-powered leaf blower to clean up leaves around a home in the Windsong neighborhood of Winter Park on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024.
  20. The National Weather Service said to expect up to an inch of rain over the first half of the week from a number of storms. On Jan. 6, 2024 people take cover from the rain around Spring Bayou in Tarpon Springs.
  21. Wind turbines stand at an offshore wind farm in Britain. Florida is poised to ban offshore wind energy in state waters.
  22. Max Oliver moves a lobster to the banding table aboard his boat while fishing off Spruce Head, Maine, on Aug. 31, 2021. America's lobster fishing business dipped in catch while grappling with challenges including a changing ocean environment and new rules designed to protect rare whales.
  23. Max Oliver moves a lobster to the banding table aboard his boat while fishing off Spruce Head, Maine, on Aug. 31, 2021. America's lobster fishing business dipped in catch while grappling with challenges including a changing ocean environment and new rules designed to protect rare whales.
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