Cynthia Barnett
Environmental Journalist at Freelance
Environment writer. 4 books incl Rain, longlisted National Book Award. Newest: The Sound of the Sea: Seashells & the Fate of the Oceans. Teach env jou @UF.
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1 month 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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RT @swamp_prof: If you're in St Pete tomorrow, check out USF's Florida Studies Book Festival! There's a great line-up of authors, including…
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Popping up my head here briefly for a cover reveal! Thrilled, after eight years of work, to be publishing my bio of Peter Matthiessen this October with Pantheon Books. I could not have asked for a more gorgeous jacket than this one, designed by Tyler Comrie. https://t.co/I3khrzGjQX
To live in #Florida is to be unsurprised by many things that land us in the news, not least the impressive number of alligators living in #Gainesville's storm sewers. A nice #science story @jack_tamisiea on @DrewIvory352 research @nytimes. https://t.co/QBLNkbIjFH
