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How did our County Commission come to abandon fair representation? Who should you vote for this year?

When the Last of a Species Breathes No More “When the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and...

My name is Brice Claypoole. I’m fifteen years old and run the advocacy group Kids for Clean Water. The group was founded in 2020 by me...

I am fifteen years old and live in Manatee County. More than anything, I enjoy exploring our local environment, our land and waters. I...

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An image I took one week ago in my neighborhood: hundreds of fish, dead due to red tide. Florida is famous for water. Our springwater is...

What is the true beauty of Southwest Florida? The thing that has drawn us here? To many it is the nature, the beauty and serenity of our...

In reference to the county and state's recent attack on home rule in attempting to punish AMI for regulating development, please see this...

Photo by Brice Claypoole On January 12, Representative Will Robinson Jr., supported unanimously by our local state legislative...

Decimated mangroves at Aqua by the Bay. Photo credit: Suncoast Waterkeeper Relentless development has long plagued Southwest Florida,...

Muntaka Chasant/Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plastic_Pollution_in_Ghana.jpg “The entire lifecycle of...

Hurricane Ian approaches Florida. The storm would kill around 100 people in the following days. Photo Credit: National Oceanic and...

Gnarled mangrove forests once dominated Florida’s coastlines. Hundreds of herons, egrets, pelicans, and stunning pink roseate spoonbills...

This year I learned to SCUBA dive. I also learned from my dive instructor, Nicole Pelletier, founder of Caribbean Islands Manta...

On March 16, Attorney Edward Vogler on behalf of Medallion Home, Neal Communities, and other developers wrote a public comment to Manatee...

One of the last Franklin’s bumble bees pollinates a composite flower. Photo by James P. Strange, USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect Research...

One of the last photos ever taken of the Bachman’s warbler (1958) Photo by Jerry A. Payne, USDA Agricultural Research Service:...

A Selenisa caterpillar on a native partridge pea plant. Photo by Brice Claypoole On a recent trip to Terra Ceia Nature Preserve, I...

A beautiful blue sweat bee (Augochlorella) on a turkey tangle frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora). Photo by Brice Claypoole When someone says the...

A machine mines minerals for Mosaic. (Photo by Brice Claypoole) We are driving outside of a small town called Wauchula, in what feels to...