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The Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup will take place on Saturday, Sept. 25. Each year, the worldwide event collects at more than 6,000 sites and includes half a million volunteers. During the 2009 cleanup, 498,818 volunteers picked up 7.4 million pounds of marine debris in 108 countries 45 U.S. states. Information and logistics for sites can [...]
Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places and the planet itself. It is the oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. And its Miami Club members enjoy a good beer or two. Join club members and visitors on the third Thursday of each [...]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has closed a 4.5-mile section of the Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail until Aug. 31. LOST is closed from Lake Harbor (Structure 354) to South Bay in order to accommodate the delivery of 40,000 tons of armor stone that will be used to reinforce the Herbert Hoover Dike in the [...]
Yesterday workers with federal, state and non-governmental agencies removed a pair of six-week-old bald eaglets from a nest near two Herbert Hoover Dike Rehabilitation Project sites in Palm Beach County, according to a statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps claims that relocating the eaglets allows it to maintain construction momentum [...]
Scuba divers one mile off the Town of Palm Beach have found a massive field of the endangered staghorn coral, according to the Palm Beach Post. Divers with the nonprofit Palm Beach County Reef Rescue discovered the coral at a time when town officials object to federal habitat protection for the area. Previously, only small pockets [...]
The body of a former surfing champion was found by boaters on Sept. 9 in the Lake Worth Inlet. The boaters called the Coast Guard which later identified the man as Michael Ray Bowe, 60, who rose to surfing prominence in the 1960s. The Palm Beach Post reports that Fred Salmon, head of the Palm Beach County Surfing [...]
Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places and the planet itself. It is the oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. And its Miami Club members enjoy a good beer or two. Join them on the third Thursday of each month at [...]
An environmental group has petitioned the federal government to extend a coral protection zone 15 miles up the Palm Beach County coast, according to an Aug. 21 article by the Sun Sentinel’s David Fleshler. “The National Marine Fisheries Service in November designated about 1,300 square miles of ocean floor as critical habitat for elkhorn [...]
The Palm Beach County Sports Commission announced that it supports H.R. 2105, the Personal Health Investment Today Act of 2009. According to the commission’s executive director Gerry Baron, the PHIT Act is legislation, pending in Congress, that will “allow for reimbursement of physical activity expenses using pre-tax dollars; reducing the costs of physical activity [...]
The Palm Beach County Sports Commission announced that it supports H.R. 2105, the Personal Health Investment Today Act of 2009. According to the commission’s executive director Gerry Baron, the PHIT Act is legislation, pending in Congress, that will “allow for reimbursement of physical activity expenses using pre-tax dollars; reducing the costs of physical activity to [...]
