By Wylie Saviello From the most devastating hurricanes the nation has seen in years to record-breaking snowfall in Northeast Florida, 2024 and 2025 have seen extreme weather. After such wild events, some wonder if the weather’s severity may be due to bigger factors, like global…
By Emily Braunstein Living in Florida means coexisting with marine life. But the University of Florida’s Whitney laboratory for Marine Bioscience is doing more than coexisting—they are innovating. Before the Whitney Lab in Marineland, Florida, there was no solutions to the sick or displaced sea…
By Zoe Sherman There is a not-so-new invasive species crawling the streets of St. Augustine, slowly deteriorating the city’s beauty: litterbugs. Florida is the nation’s third-highest generator of plastic waste. The state produces more plastic waste than the current recycling system can process, according to…
By Ciarra Blasini gargoyle@flagler.edu Flagler College students and professors take part in the Global Climate Strike on Sept. 20, 2019. The strike is a call to action for the climate change crisis.
Adam Morley is happy to talk about bioaccumulation – excited, even. If the build-up of toxic chemicals in organisms from plastic waste wasn’t an issue, he’d probably be even happier.
In the time of seafarers, when billowing sails glided across mythical seas, it was St. Augustine’s front door and its back.