Cynthia Barnett

2 months ago | floridatrend.com | Cynthia Barnett

Biomass AppealAt the Port of Tampa, a company called Port Sutton EnviroFuels is set to break ground this year on the state's first ethanol plant. Located on a 22-acre site, the complex will import and mill 17 million bushels of corn a year from the Midwest, then distill it into 46 million gallons of ethanol.

Jan 16, 2025 | csmonitor.com | Cynthia Barnett

“Wouldn’t a medical remedy be more reliable?” “How do you even know God is there to hear your prayers?”These are the kinds of questions people sometimes ask when they wonder why anyone would prefer a spiritual approach – Christian Science – to solving a health problem rather than a medical intervention. One way that I find it helpful to reply is to share experiences of healing through prayer, such as one that I had about a year ago when I became aware that one side of my back was hurting.

Jun 12, 2024 | sierraclub.org | Cynthia Barnett

Black-gray smoke billowed into the sky and blocked the sun, forming a thick plume behind Florida's Pahokee Middle-Senior High School. As student Madison Jones watched flames rise from a nearby sugarcane field, it struck her how normal it seemed. Seeing cane fires flare up on a school day was as common as watching thunderheads gather on the same horizon.

Oct 6, 2023 | eckerd.edu | Cynthia Barnett

Cynthia Barnett’s recent book was named the Best Natural History Book of the Year by the Tampa Bay Times. Barnett, who currently works as the senior lecturer and environmental journalist in residence at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications, discussed her most recent book, The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans.

Aug 27, 2023 | sej.org | Cynthia Barnett |Sara Shipley Hiles

Students traveled aboard the research vessel Acadiana into Barataria Bay off coastal Louisiana to examine marine creatures that can survive in the oxygen-depleted zone caused by upstream runoff. Photo: Sara Shipley Hiles.