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This individual inspects a kayak situation. Manatees are large marine mammals that inhabit slow rivers, canals, saltwater bays, estuaries, and coastal areas.They are a migratory species, inhabiting the Florida waters during the winter and moving as far north as Virginia and into the Chesapeake Bay, sometimes seen as far north as Baltimore, Maryland and as far west as Texas in the warmer summer ...
Around 1,100 manatees died in Florida in 2021, the highest number since the earliest available data in the 1970s. Now wildlife officials are taking a step they never have tried before to try to ...
Manatees are a threatened species. They rely on toasty pockets of water to survive the winter. When temperatures dip, the “sea cows” are at risk for cold stress, which can kill them.
The reality is everyone is at fault, and we need to transcend the politics of culpability that have brought manatees to the brink. That’s why we need an unprecedented, massive effort toward ...
A cryoprotectant is a substance used to protect biological tissue from freezing damage (i.e. that due to ice formation). Arctic and Antarctic insects, fish and amphibians create cryoprotectants (antifreeze compounds and antifreeze proteins) in their bodies to minimize freezing damage during cold winter periods. Cryoprotectants are also used to ...
A freeze-dried Ice cream sandwich in a bag. Freeze-dried Neapolitan ice cream, shown with air-tight foil partially unwrapped. Freeze-dried ice cream, also called astronaut ice cream or space ice cream, is ice cream that has had most of the water removed from it by a freeze-drying process. Compared to regular ice cream, it can be kept at room ...
Christmas wishes: Here's what clean-water nonprofits need to advocate for the St. Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon - and how you can help them.
It's a mission that could help improve water and habitat quality, helping animals it too, like manatees, birds and sport fish. "No one's ever seen it this bad, there's pretty much zero seagrass ...