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  1. Florida restricting sales of pythons and lizards amid fears of invasive species
    Yesterday• Environment
    A black and white tegu lizard takes a drink of water in its quarters in 2013 after being confiscated from a home in Oldsmar.
  2. Dunedin accepts purchase agreement for Gladys Douglas acreage
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    The Gladys Douglas property includes 44 acres in unincorporated Pinellas County.
  3. Water officials okay Ginnie Springs bottling plan after years-long battle
    Feb. 23• Environment
    Divers and swimmers enjoy Ginnie Springs in High Springs in August 2016.
  5. Sand buries Little Wekiva River, residents suspect I-4 construction
    Feb. 21• Florida
    The Wekiva River system, including springs, tributaries, wetlands and forest, has been crowded by metro Orlando and suburban Lake County, making it one Florida’s most costly and challenging environmental treasures to protect.
  6. From Hillsborough County firefighter to specialist in wildlife animal removal
    Feb. 20• Community News
    A squirrel explores a fallen tree near Chris Wirt, 44, of Lutz, on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Tarpon Springs. Wirt is the owner of AAAC Wildlife Removal of Tampa. He wears a large gator tooth, from a 12'8" gator.
  7. Louisiana challenges California ban on alligator products
    Feb. 20• Environment
    A small alligator sits on a log along a bank in the Maurepas Swamp in Ruddock, La. In the Trump administration’s last days, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a change to rules protecting alligators. Opponents say it's an end run around the chance that Louisiana might lose a federal court challenge to California’s ban on alligator products. The government is taking comments until March 22, 2021, on the proposed change.
  8. Texas crisis has governor facing big backer: energy industry
    Feb. 19• Local Weather
    Carlos Mandez waits in line to fill his propane tanks Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Houston. Customers had to wait over an hour in the freezing rain to fill their tanks. Millions in Texas still had no power after a historic snowfall and single-digit temperatures created a surge of demand for electricity to warm up homes unaccustomed to such extreme lows, buckling the state's power grid and causing widespread blackouts.
  9. How to help people in Texas battered by winter storms
    Feb. 18• Life & Culture
    An HEB grocery store employee hands out flowers to customers waiting in line in the snow Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Austin, Texas. The store did not have any milk, eggs, meat or refrigerated items. Temperatures dropped into the single digits as snow shut down air travel and grocery stores.(AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
  10. Florida celebrates sea level rise planning tool after years ‘behind the curve’
    Feb. 18• Environment
    The new St. Pete Pier is shown under construction in late 2019.
  11. Thousands of cold-stunned sea turtles being rescued in Texas
    Feb. 18• Environment
    Thousands of Atlantic green sea turtles and Kemp's ridley sea turtles suffering from cold stun are laid out to recover Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 at the South Padre Island Convention Center on South Padre Island, Texas.
  12. Tampa legal advice: Run wild, run free, you chickens of Ybor City
    Feb. 17• Tampa
    A rooster hops on the railing of a resident's front porch at The Quarter at Ybor complex, where some residents complain the chickens ruin landscaping and poop at the pool.
  13. Mutilated pelicans found at Sunshine Skyway pier. All but one have been saved.
    Feb. 14• Florida
    The South Skyway Fishing Pier is the focus of concerns about Pelican mutilation.
  14. See a Tampa scientist’s views of mysterious Greenland ice holes
    Feb. 11• Environment
    Glacier researchers use crampons and fixed ropes to climb out of a 100-meter-deep moulin on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
  15. Oldsmar’s water supply attack is a warning, experts say. It could’ve been worse.
    Feb. 10• Pinellas
    The Bruce T. Haddock Water Treatment Plant is seen Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 in Oldsmar. Local and federal authorities are investigating after an attempt Friday to poison the city of Oldsmar’s water supply, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Monday.
  16. New mosquito species found in South Florida. It’s an aggressive biter, of course.
    Feb. 10• News
    In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito known to carry the Zika virus, is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.
  17. Lobbyist Richard Gentry named PSC chief counsel to represent Florida consumers
    Feb. 9• Business
    Lobbyist Richard Gentry was appointed by a legislative committee Tuesday to serve as the chief lawyer representing the public before the Public Service Commission in rate cases.
  18. Fear and love surround Pablo Escobar’s hippos thriving in Colombia
    Feb. 9• Environment
    Hippos float in the lake at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
  19. Glacier breaks in India’s north; flood kills 9, 140 missing
    Feb. 7• Nation & World
    A massive flood of water, mud and debris flows through the Chamoli District on Sunday after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in the Tapovan area of the northern state of Uttarakhand, India.
  20. Tiny chameleon a contender for title of smallest reptile
    Feb. 5• Nation & World
    Picture taken in 2012 in Munich, Germany shows a newly discovered species of chameleon which is a contender for the title of world's smallest reptile. Scientists from Madagascar and Germany called it Brookesia nana, said the male appeared is just 13.5 millimeters big.
  21. Tampa considers new rules on development in high-risk coastal areas
    Feb. 5• Tampa
    Strong winds and high tide from Tropical Storm Colin floods Bayshore Boulevard in south Tampa on Monday, June 6, 2016
  22. Oil company wants to build wells in Big Cypress National Preserve
    Feb. 4• Environment
    A pair of wood storks, left, and a large group of white ibis rest and feed in a wetland area off Loop Road in the Big Cypress National Preserve in 2008.
  23. Tampa City Council member Joseph Citro drops push for clean energy by 2030
    Feb. 3• Tampa
    Council member Joe Citro during a city council meeting in downtown Tampa, Florida on Thursday, June 6, 2019.
  24. Tampa slows down on hot-button wastewater reuse project
    Feb. 3• Tampa
    Chlorinated water flows over a weir at the Howard F. Curren Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant. Tampa officials are talking about using reclaimed water - essentially, highly treated waste water that's nearly pure enough to drink - to augment water levels in the Hillsborough River and help stem rising salt levels in Sulphur Springs.
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