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NOAA Confirms Major Global Bleaching Event due to Climate Change

04/16/2024

Greetings to you! Unfortunately, I have breaking news on our oceans heating up from climate change. NOAA just reported that bleaching-level heat stress, which is monitored by the Coral Reef Watch (CRW) “continues to be extensive across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean basins. This is the fourth global...

Announcing the NEW U.S. Postal Service Manatee Stamp!

03/27/2024

Greetings to you! Here’s very cool news. March 27th is Manatee Appreciation Day! And the U.S. Postal Service honors this extraordinary marine mammal by releasing the “Manatee Stamp” on March 27th, celebrating manatee awareness! According to the U.S. Postal Service, “The stamp’s design aims to spread awareness for the need to protect...

March to the Tune of Celebrating Seagrass!

03/05/2024

Greetings to you! Did you know seagrass is so important that we celebrate it during the month of March? It’s true! March is Seagrass Awareness Month! So what is seagrass and why is it important? According to the National Wildlife Federation, “Seagrasses are underwater plants that...

Discover Extraordinary Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs State Park!

01/12/2024

A warm greetings to you! And Happy New Year! I can’t think of a better way to start out a new 2024 blog then to talk about the abundance of manatees making their winter home at Homosassa Springs State Park. Manatees are warm-blooded...

2023 was the Hottest Year in Last 175,000!

11/20/2023

Greetings! In my recent blog, 2023 on Track for Hottest Year on Record, I talk about extreme September 2023 record heat, while at the same time, Antarctic sea ice is at record lows for the last six consecutive months. Continuing with this sobering news,...

Antarctica Warming at Twice the Rate Climate Models Predicted!

09/09/2023

Greetings to you! According to a recent study, “Antarctica is likely warming at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world and faster than climate change models are predicting, with potentially far-reaching implications for global sea level rise.” In the study, scientists “analyzed...

Historic Wildfire Destroys Lahaina, Hawaii

08/22/2023

Greetings! This historic and blistering summer continues breaking records. Weather whiplash undoubtedly brought on by human-caused climate changeincreased the frequency of these extreme atmospheric events. The historic Lāhainā, Hawaii wildfire earlier this month has killed at least 114 people as of this writing, with more than 800...

Florida Key Water Sizzles at Record-Breaking Temperatures Killing Coral

07/27/2023

Greetings! The entire globe is sizzling. But adding more fuel to the fire is record-breaking water temperatures in Manatee Bay, Florida. Earlier this week, a “buoy in Manatee Bay recorded a temperature of more than 100 degrees for two straight days.” As the waters...

Record Ocean Temperatures are Boiling off the Charts!

05/16/2023

Greetings! Wow – ocean temperatures skyrocketed in March to their highest levels ever recorded! Gregory C. Johnson, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said, “It’s remarkable. This is another milestone.” Matthew England, professor of ocean and climate dynamics at the University...

A New Ecosystem is Thriving in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch!

04/26/2023

Greetings! A blob of plastic pollution twice the size of Texas is alive and well in the Pacific Ocean. It’s called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is a 620,000 square mile vortex of trash floating between California and Hawaii. And get this...