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  1. ZooTampa welcomes a new baby southern white rhino
    4 hours ago• Environment
    Alake, a 20-year-old southern white rhino, gave birth days ago to a female calf at ZooTampa at Lowry Park, according to zoo officials. This is the eighth birth of the species at ZooTampa. The baby rhino has not yet been named.
  2. Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is breaking up faster
    Yesterday• Environment
    This January 2010 photo provided by Ian Joughin shows the area near the grounding line of the Pine Island Glacier along its west side in Antarctica. According to a study published in the Friday, June 11, 2021 issue of Science Advances, the critical Antarctic glacier is looking more vulnerable as satellite images show the ice shelf that blocks it from collapsing into the sea is breaking up much faster than before and spawning huge icebergs.
  3. More Red Tide detected as Pinellas issues health warning
    Yesterday• Environment
    Dead fish lie on the sand at Indian Shores Beach in St. Petersburg on Thursday.
  5. Court blocks controversial pesticide used on Florida citrus
    Jun. 10• Politics
    Orange buds growing in a citrus grove in Florida. A panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided this week to overturn federal approval of the aldicarb pesticide in the production of Florida oranges and grapefruit.
  6. Red Tide reported off Pinellas beaches; shellfish farming closed again
    Jun. 9• Environment
    A dead fish is seen on the beach at Indian Shores after reports that Red Tide was found in water samples taken along the Pinellas County coast, according to state officials.
  7. ZooTampa sends samples to Germany, hires 2 experts in stingray deaths probe
    Jun. 9• Breaking News
    After all 12 of its stingrays died on May 27, ZooTampa is sending tissue and water test samples to a lab in Germany and hiring two aquatic experts to investigate.
  8. Tampa Bay shellfish farmers can resume harvesting at sunrise after Red Tide scare
    Jun. 5• Environment
    Owner Brian Rosegger pulls himself and his boat closer to a line of floating bags to harvest oysters at the Lost Coast Oyster Company farm in Tampa Bay in August 2020.
  9. Highway route through wilderness area sparks Hillsborough environmental concerns
    Jun. 4• Transportation
    Intersection where State Road 56 ends eastward at U.S. 301, pictured on Friday, June 4, 2021 in Zephyrhills.
  10. Black bear sightings are rare in Pinellas County. Here’s how officials handle them.
    Jun. 4• Environment
    The black bear at Philippe Park was spotted in several residential areas over the weekend, police said.
  11. Shrinking giants: North Atlantic right whales getting tinier
    Jun. 3• Environment
    In this Dec. 30, 2010 photo provided by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, a female North Atlantic right whale Catalog #3911 is entangled in fishing gear. By February 2011, she was dead. A study published by the journal Current Biology on Thursday, June 3, 2021, says the hulking giants of the deep, the North Atlantic right whales, are about three feet smaller than they were just 20 years ago.
  12. Hillsborough health officials send Red Tide warning for Tampa Bay
    Jun. 3• Environment
    Port Manatee, as seen from Piney Point Road, near where polluted water was discharged earlier this spring.
  13. Shrinking giants: North Atlantic right whales getting tinier
    Jun. 3• Environment
    The younger generation of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales are on average about three feet shorter than whales were 20 years ago.
  14. Hillsborough trash rates poised to jump 22 percent
    Jun. 3• Hillsborough
    Republic Services is one of three companies selected Thursday to provide trash pick-up service to Hillsborough residents. The new franchise agreements begin next year.
  15. DeSantis announces Burmese Python hunting contest in Everglades
    Jun. 3• Florida
    Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Vice Chair Mike Sole, "Alligator" Ron Bergeron, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Commission Chair Rodney Barreto announce the annual python hunt in the Everglades, which will start in July.
  16. Bear seen at Philippe Park is on the move; park reopens early
    Jun. 3• Breaking News
    The black bear seen at Philippe Park was also spotted in several residential areas over the weekend, police said.
  17. Glad you’re here, Tampa Bay tourists. But might we help you visit like a local?
    Jun. 3• Environment
    The setting sun on Clearwater Beach is always a crowd-pleaser.
  18. Former worker sues Tampa lead smelter over son’s exposure
    Jun. 2• Investigations
    Civil rights and personal injury attorney Benjamin Crump (center) and co-counselors announce the filing of a lawsuit against Gopher Resource on behalf of Colin Brown (in headphones). Colin's parents Ko Brown (third from right) and Tomika Brown (second from right) are suing the lead factory, alleging that dust from the plant poisoned their son. Colin's blood-lead levels only subsided after his father, a former factory worker, left the plant. The Wednesday press conference in Tampa was held outside of the George E. Edgecomb Courthouse.
  19. Fox 13 forecaster Roy Leep, dead at 88, found love story in the weather
    Jun. 1• Local Weather
    Roy Leep and his dog Scud on set at WTVT during the 1990s.
  20. Climate change blamed for 37 percent of global heat deaths, study says
    Jun. 1• Environment
    In this June 26, 2015 photo, mourners attend a funeral for unclaimed people who died of extreme weather, in Karachi, Pakistan, after a devastating heat wave that struck southern Pakistan the previous weekend, with over 800 confirmed deaths according to a senior health official. A study published in Nature Climate Change on May 31 has calculated that more than one-third of global heat deaths can directly be attributed to human-caused climate change.
  21. At least 2 Exxon board members lose seats in climate fight
    May 29• Business
    In this April 23, 2018 photo, the logo for ExxonMobil appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Exxon Mobil is facing a major challenge from a group of investors in one of the biggest fights a corporate boardroom has faced over its stance on climate change, an issue of rising urgency among many shareholders. The investor group is pushing to replace four of the oil giant’s board members with executives who they say are better suited to make money and to lead the company through a transition to cleaner energy.
  22. ZooTampa’s 12 stingrays found dead under mysterious circumstances
    May 28• Breaking News
    All 12 stingrays housed at ZooTampa at Lowry Park have died, officials announced Thursday night. The cause of their deaths is under investigation.
  23. Plague of ravenous, destructive mice tormenting Australians
    May 28• Nation & World
    Mice scurry around stored grain on a farm near Tottenham, Australia earlier this month. Vast tracts of land in Australia's New South Wales state are being threatened by a mouse plague that the state government describes as "absolutely unprecedented."
  24. Tampa lead factory incurs more problems
    May 28• News
    Consultants and workers have documented problems with fumes spilling out from the furnace into the workspace at Gopher Resource for years.
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