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  1. Pinellas warns beachgoers of ‘stronger Red Tide impacts’ this weekend
    4 hours ago• Environment
    A sign warns about Red Tide at Indian Rocks Beach on Thursday.
  2. Red Tide’s return raises fears about the health of Tampa Bay
    4 hours ago• Environment
    Dead fish fill the end of a canal along Snell Isle on July 16 in St. Petersburg.
  3. As smoke from western wildfires spreads coast to coast, who’s at risk?
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    The Staten Island Ferry departs Tuesday from the Manhattan terminal through a haze of smoke with the Statue of Liberty barely visible. Wildfires in the American West are creating hazy skies as far away as New York as the massive infernos spew smoke and ash into the air in columns up to six miles high.
  5. With Tampa Bay in grip of Red Tide, shrimpers turn their nets toward death
    Yesterday• Environment
    Tyler Tucker, left, works with his father, Toliver Tucker, to release nets full of dead fish onto the deck of the shrimp boat, Southbound, while Toliver's wife, Jessica Tucker, navigates the Intracoastal Waterway off Treasure Island on Thursday.
  6. Florida not sharing which nursing homes have COVID-19 as overall cases rise
    Yesterday• Health
    Residents look at the street through a window at the Icaria nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 25, 2020. The image was part of a series by Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
  7. DeSantis defends state response to Red Tide in Tampa Bay amid calls to declare emergency
    Jul. 21• Environment
    Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, backed by wildlife experts, marine business owners and politicians, talks about the state’s overall effort to combat the recent Red Tide outbreak plaguing Tampa Bay waters, during a press conference held at the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. At this moment, the DeSantis was pushing back on a question from a reporter who said the St. Petersburg Mayor, Rick Kriseman accused the governor of politicizing Red Tide. In rebuttal, DeSantis said it was Kriseman who introduced politics into the Red Tide discussions.
  8. Rising natural gas prices could cause Florida utility bills to increase
    Jul. 21• Business
    Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Ben Power Station in Apollo Beach. [LUIS SANTANA | Times]
  9. Red Tide adds urgency to Clearwater Marine Aquarium manatee rehab center
    Jul. 21• Environment
    A large rehabilitation pool at Clearwater Marine Aquarium’s Fred Howard Park facility in Tarpon Springs. The aquarium announced Wednesday that they are speeding up their efforts to get the facility ready to rehabilitate manatees.
  10. Red Tide may recede in Tampa Bay but worsen off Pinellas beaches
    Jul. 20• Environment
    Workers from the city of St. Petersburg use a turbidity boom to corral dead fish as they float near the St. Petersburg Municipal Marina on July 16.
  11. Plan for 404 apartments on Anclote River is back to square one
    Jul. 20• Pinellas
    Vacant land consisting of 74 acres along U.S. 19 butting up to the Anclote River can be seen Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 in Tarpon Springs. Texas-based Morgan Group has proposed a 404-unit apartment complex for the site.
  12. Hillsborough commissioner seeks fertilizer ban
    Jul. 20• Environment
    Dead fish are pictured in a clean-up bucket along Bayshore Drive NE as hundreds of people marched Saturday in St. Petersburg asking for a Red Tide clean up. Hillsborough County Commissioner Mariella Smith is proposing Hillsborough follow the lead of Pinellas County and ban the summertime use of fertilizers to reduce nitrogen levels in area waterways.
  13. Environmentalists urge DeSantis to declare Red Tide emergency
    Jul. 19• Environment
    Dead fish fill the end of a canal July 16 near the Sell Isle Marina in St. Petersburg. Red Tide continues to poison hundreds of tons of marine life in Tampa Bay and in the gulf.
  14. Sunny day flooding could get a lot worse in St. Petersburg, study shows
    Jul. 19• Environment
    A driver speeds through a flooded street along Venetian Boulevard NE in the Shore Acres area of St. Petersburg in December 2018. Sunny day flooding could go from an occasional nuisance to a regular problem in the city, according to a new study. It projects that St. Petersburg might see inundation at high tide more than 60 times a year in the coming decades.
  15. Red Tide protesters gather at St. Pete Pier
    Jul. 17• Environment
    Dahlia Bagheri, 20, right foreground, lead chants during a march from The Pier to North Shore Park in St. Petersburg on Saturday to raise awareness and call for action in response to the Red Tide outbreak.
  16. Tampa Bay has Red Tide questions. Here are some answers.
    Jul. 17• Environment
    St. Petersburg city employees clean up a fish kill in Coffeepot Bayou as the Red Tide crisis continues in Tampa Bay.
  17. Amid Red Tide, Tampa Bay’s snook, redfish and trout fishing restricted again
    Jul. 16• Environment
    A pile of dead fish gathered on the bow of a boat June 17 as crews use hand nets in the intracoastal waters between Clearwater and Dunedin to remove dead fish poisoned by Red Tide.
  18. Red Tide, stench of dead fish hangs over Fort De Soto beaches
    Jul. 16• Environment
    A dead, dry fish lies on the shore at Fort De Soto Park on Friday in Tierra Verde.
  19. Trump showerhead rule to increase water flow being dropped
    Jul. 16• Environment
    President Joe Biden's administration is reversing a Trump-era rule approved after the former president complained he wasn’t getting wet enough because of limits on water flow from showerheads.
  20. Greenland suspends oil exploration because of climate change
    Jul. 16• Environment
    In this file photo dated July 2007, an Inuit seal hunter touches a dead seal atop a melting iceberg near Ammassalik Island, Greenland. The left-leaning  government on Greenland which could be sitting on vast amounts of oil, has decided to suspend all oil exploration.
  21. Europe floods: Death toll over 120 as rescues continue
    Jul. 16• Nation & World
    Destroyed houses are seen in Schuld, Germany, Thursday. Due to heavy rain falls the Ahr river dramatically went over the banks the evening before.
  22. We, the fish of St. Petersburg’s Red Tide, ask you to knock it off
    Jul. 16• Opinion
    Dead fish are seen recently along Madeira Beach. A bloom concentration of Red Tide has continued to plague Pinellas County beaches.
  23. St. Petersburg council to DeSantis: Declare Red Tide emergency
    Jul. 16• Environment
    Dead fish pile up along the shore of North Shore Park on Thursday. St. Petersburg City Council is poised to vote on a resolution asking Gov. Ron DeSantis to declare a state of emergency as the Red Tide crisis continues.
  24. Is it safe to eat seafood in the Tampa Bay area during Red Tide?
    Jul. 15• Food
    A seafood case filled with grouper, snapper and tile fish at Wild Seafood at Johns Pass Boardwalk in Madeira Beach. Most of the local fish sold in restaurants and seafood markets is fished far offshore and safe to eat despite the ongoing Red Tide, experts say.
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