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How did our County Commission come to abandon fair representation? Who should you vote for this year?

When the Last of a Species Breathes No More “When the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and...

My name is Brice Claypoole. I’m fifteen years old and run the advocacy group Kids for Clean Water. The group was founded in 2020 by me...

I am fifteen years old and live in Manatee County. More than anything, I enjoy exploring our local environment, our land and waters. I...

An image I took one week ago in my neighborhood: hundreds of fish, dead due to red tide. Florida is famous for water. Our springwater is...

Muntaka Chasant/Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plastic_Pollution_in_Ghana.jpg “The entire lifecycle of...

Gnarled mangrove forests once dominated Florida’s coastlines. Hundreds of herons, egrets, pelicans, and stunning pink roseate spoonbills...

On March 16, Attorney Edward Vogler on behalf of Medallion Home, Neal Communities, and other developers wrote a public comment to Manatee...

One of the last Franklin’s bumble bees pollinates a composite flower. Photo by James P. Strange, USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect Research...

One of the last photos ever taken of the Bachman’s warbler (1958) Photo by Jerry A. Payne, USDA Agricultural Research Service:...

A machine mines minerals for Mosaic. (Photo by Brice Claypoole) We are driving outside of a small town called Wauchula, in what feels to...

Just before 1:00 PM, we finished packing water bottles and snacks into the car and headed to the Sunshine Skyway Fishing Pier. When we...

Let’s change our world in which this monarch (Danaus plexippus) could just be collateral damage of our agriculture system, to which,...

Welcome to a regular day in my neighborhood. (Photo by Ali Claypoole) Just this month, much of the western US went up in flames and...

This year, Manatee County voters will get the chance to approve a land acquisition referendum. What exactly is this “land acquisition...

Moths are mysterious, magical, beautiful and important, but their also in danger.

Sarasota Bay (photo by Brice Claypoole) This week we had a sewage leak into Sarasota Bay. Millions of gallons of sewage water leaked out...

UPDATE: The Conservation Foundation got the money they needed! They can no longer take donations for this project but you can still...