During the July 29 to July 30 spiny lobster sport miniseason, countless men and women working for a variety of law-enforcement agencies, such as the National Park Service and Coast Guard, helped make sure people obeyed the rules. But it wasn’t enough to stop four people from dying. Thousands of freedivers and snorkelers participated in the [...]

The least-fit segment of the United States has twice the mortality risk of even those who are just a bit more in shape, according to a study recently published in the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. A research team from Stanford University led by Victor F. Froelicher, M.D., and Jonathan Myers, [...]

  The City of Miami, in partnership with Homestead-based Youth Fishing Foundation, will host the 3rd Annual Inter City Tire Miami Fishing Tournament on Aug. 8. The event will take place out of Miamarina, which is located downtown at Bayside Marketplace. The fishing tournament coincides with the eighth annual National Marina Day, commemorating the important role [...]

Bike Miami Rides, the City of Miami’s free community bicycle event, offers residents the opportunity to become safer and more confident urban cyclists with help from police officers and volunteers. On Sunday, July 19, residents and visitors met at 8:30 a.m. at the City of Miami NET Office and learned the basics of better cycling [...]

  “Aging athletes don’t have the agility they had in their youth,” CNN.com reported on July 16. “Minor injuries accumulate and become major ones. And by the time they hit their mid-30s and 40s, they’re considered geriatric — that’s the conventional wisdom. “But recently, middle-aged athletes have defied the tolls of aging, returning to competition and [...]

  As of Aug. 29, hunters of deer, hogs or alligators are now allowed to kill Burmese pythons on public land, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Up to 100,000 of the non-native snakes are slithering throughout the Everglades and other wetlands, devouring indigenous animals and scaring humans who are hiking, kayaking [...]

  A reward for information that leads to an arrest and/or a conviction in the shooting death of a Florida panther is now at $15,200. The panther was found April 21 in Hendry County on private property bordering the Big Cypress National Preserve, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS). Henry County borders [...]

  Everglades National Park’s Ernest Coe Visitor Center is exhibiting nature photographs from Judd Patterson until Sept. 30. Patterson works for the South Florida/Caribbean Network of the National Park Service and shoots nature photography to promote environmental education and for the sheer joy of being outside. He is highly motivated to capture images of threatened [...]

Fuerza Bruta’s run at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County have been extended until Aug. 2 because of the high demand for tickets. Organizers at the arts center describe the show, which has played in South America, Europe and in New York for one year, as “a non-stop collision of [...]

Banking on the success of the annual Seven Mile Bridge Run that has thrived for 25 years, organizers in Key Largo have created the Jewfish Creek Bridge Run, which is a half marathon and 5K run/walk set for Nov. 14. The races are to occupy the northbound lanes of the recently completed 1.25-mile Jewfish Creek [...]