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Is Florida Still the Orange State?
By act of the Legislature, three times over. By the numbers, California grows the oranges and Brazil squeezes the juice. A short answer to a question the license plate raises.
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Why Florida's Springs Are Losing Flow
Poe Springs stopped this summer. Rainbow and Ichetucknee are running below any full year in their records. What the state's own gauges and water districts say about where the water went.
news · 18 min
The River They Put Back
In the 1960s Florida straightened the Kissimmee into a ditch. Then it spent thirty years and close to a billion dollars undoing the work. The birds came back before the bulldozers left.
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Blue Spring in January
In the winter of 1970-71 eleven manatees sheltered in a spring on the St. Johns River. This past winter the morning roll call passed 850.
news · 17 min
The State of the Orange
Florida citrus went from six million boxes to 244 million and back to thirteen. A long look at how the groves were built, what took them apart, and what it would take to keep the rest.
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Eighteen Million Acres, and the Eight That Are Not Safe
The Florida Wildlife Corridor was drawn to keep the state's wild spine connected from the Everglades to Georgia. Five years in, the map is done and the money is the story.
news · 16 min
The Water Under Everything
Florida sits on one of the most productive aquifers on earth. Here is what it was, what it is now, how it got this way, and what it will take to keep it.
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Apalachicola's Oyster Reefs, Slowly Returning
After a five year closure, the wild oyster is cautiously back on Apalachicola Bay.