Tom Bayles
Senior Environmental Reporter at WGCU Public Media
Tom Bayles, Senior Digital Environmental Reporter, WCGU Public Media 90.1 FM - NPR and PBS for Southwest Florida
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1 week ago |
wgcu.org | Tom Bayles
A new report from The Everglades Foundation found the River of Grass will generate more than one trillion dollars for Florida’s economy during the next half-century. The billions of dollars The Everglades Foundation says are created by the River of Grass every year are not from finding gold and precious stones in the ground. It’s not the collective wealth of the airboat tour sector. The big money is in the combined intrinsic value of things like clean water to drink and pristine forests to hike in.
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2 weeks ago |
wgcu.org | Tom Bayles
Wildland firefighters in the Big Cypress National Preserve are planning to light the first of three prescribed fires on June 9 to clear out dead underbrush and other woody fuels to prevent a larger, out-of-control fire in the future. Specially trained firefighters will assess the weather conditions until they are the correct mix of temperature, humidity, winds, and other factors that will help keep the fire in check.
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2 weeks ago |
wgcu.org | Tom Bayles
Last week, the showers that fell on Peninsular Florida dropped enough rain in most places to take the edge off the worst drought in decades. But in Southwest Florida, the showers last week had the same split personality as the rainfall the weekend of May 9: one town recorded four inches, while the next barely got wet. Temperatures in the region have been unseasonably warm all year.
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4 weeks ago |
wgcu.org | Tom Bayles
For those hitting the beach on this first unofficial summer weekend after Memorial Day, there’s a decent chance that when you get done ridding your shorts of all that sand, similar grains will waft down from the sky. It’s not sand, exactly, but it was in the Sahara Desert a few days earlier. How the microns-wide dust particles get from there to here is an amazing voyage. To follow the remarkable journey of a Saharan dust cloud has definite Hollywood potential.
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1 month ago |
wgcu.org | Tom Bayles
The Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County has issued a health advisory about toxic blue-green algae showing up east of Rotunda, in Zephyr Waterway near South Gulf Cove, warning people to stay away from the noxious algae bloom. Microscopic parts of the harmful bloom can make adults sick. Children, too, need to stay away from the dangerous water. Dogs and cats can die.
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