Looking for a little fun in the sun this weekend? Everglades National Park is looking for a bunch of volunteers to show up and pull weeds. The weeds are an invasive species that was planted in the park when it used to be farmlands. It was put there to aerate the soil, and since the [ more... ]

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Galapagos is taken off the UNESCO endangered list and the Everglades are added. Maybe Ecuador could spare a few of their ecologist to offer some advice on how to avoid completely destroying Florida. I’m just going to throw this out there – they might say, “Stop building condos,” or just “Stop building Flori-Bama theme parks [ more... ]

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