
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
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 week 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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1 week ago |
wusf.org | Tom Bayles
It's Memorial Day Weekend, which means far more boaters than normal will be on the water — and so will the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission's marine law enforcement officers. That's no coincidence. Nor is it by chance that this is the time of year the FWC's annual Florida Boating Accident Statistical Report is issued with the newest facts and figures available. More often than not, those numbers are not good.
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1 week ago |
wgcu.org | Tom Bayles
It’s Memorial Day Weekend, which means far more boaters than normal will be on the water — and so will the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission’s marine law enforcement officers. That’s no coincidence. Nor is it by chance that this is the time of year the FWC’s annual Florida Boating Accident Statistical Report is issued with the newest facts and figures available. More often than not, those numbers are not good.
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2 weeks ago |
wusf.org | Tom Bayles
Rain fell heavily in places throughout Southwest Florida last week, but often just a mile away, the spotty showers left plants barely wet and little to no change for ground parched by six months of drought. Grass untouched by rainfall for so long, in a state as hot as Florida can get, disappears within weeks. What appeared to be dark and rich soil underneath, once the moisture evaporates, turns back into what it is without watering, fertilizer, and attention: sandy loam.
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