Kevin Spear

Salvador Almagro Moreno, profesor Asistente de la UCF en la Escuela Burnett de Ciencias Biomédicas en Gaston Edwards Park en el centro de Orlando, Florida, el 9 de mayo de 2022.

Científico investiga bacterias carnívoras en busca de pistas sobre la próxima pandemia

May 17, 2022 at 11:30 p.m.

El ataque de una bacteria carnívora puede comenzar en un día de playa, con un corte poco preocupante y luego, en menos de 24 horas, una infección furiosa combatida con...

Workers of Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust talk to a homeless woman, after testing her for coronavirus.

On Earth Day today, coronavirus reveals planet not so resilient

April 22, 2020 at 3:55 p.m.

The first Earth Day was an uprising for humankind to do better than smother its coasts with crude-oil blowouts, poison wildlife with factory and farm chemicals, and irradiate the atmosphere...

Central Florida drought may last months, forecasters say

April 9, 2020 at 7:02 p.m.

Central Florida faces intensifying drought even with decent rain chances for the next few days. For lawns and landscaping, March and April typically account for the region's cruel season with...

AC systems are in for a workout during the COVID-19 outbreak and a heatwave.

As Central Floridians stay home, heat wave could mean soaring power bills

March 27, 2020 at 4:26 p.m.

With Central Florida facing a potentially record heatwave this weekend, residential consumption of electricity is already way up as the COVID-19 outbreak forces more residents to migrate from workplaces to...

Sunrise brought fireworks for a swim at Curry Hammock State Park.

Finding Florida paradise in a year of red tide and green slime

August 23, 2019 at 10:03 p.m.

Florida’s natural wonders have been in the news this year for all the wrong reasons: toxic tides, green slimes and rotting marine life. Curry Hammock State Park in Marathon. Losing...

My favorite thing: Dip a GoPro beneath lilies, watch eelgrass undulate

May 12, 2019 at 1:28 p.m.

Have you ever watched a swallow-tailed kite sail over a mirror of spring water, dragging a talon as if a scalpel, opening aqueous skin? Have you eavesdropped on a family...

Captain Bobby Guilford and Captain George Lautt.

Head to the Gulf Coast for festive scalloping season

August 23, 2019 at 6:59 p.m.

A couple of thoughts may come to mind when spotting for the first time a bay scallop nestled in lush grass of shallow waters along Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast....

Part 2: Will tourism spoil Cuba’s environment?

May 12, 2019 at 11:36 a.m.

HAVANA – At a recent international conference on environmental protection, a Cuban official stressed that her nation's treasures would not be polluted, bulldozed or otherwise sacrificed by invading American tourists....

Part 1: Otherworldly Cuba is poised to transform

May 12, 2019 at 11:36 a.m.

HAVANA — Cliches about Cuba as frozen in time — with vintage cars, prestigious cigars and crumbling antiquities — gloss over that Cubans are educated and ravenous for opportunity. An...

Kayakers paddle around the calm waters at Silver Springs.

Environmentalists appeal to protect Silver Springs from aquifer pumping

August 23, 2019 at 5:52 p.m.

Fearing the state has sanctioned further harm to one of Florida's first tourism treasures, Silver Springs, two environmental groups are seeking to overturn an aquifer-pumping permit issued to a ranch...

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