Asylum seekers continue to arrive in Florida Keys amid influx

Asylum seekers continue to arrive in Florida Keys amid influx

Humanitarian crisis unfolds in Florida Keys

Florida Aquarium raises 560 corals relocated in the Keys

How the Climate Crisis Is Harming Florida Fishing

Mosquito Apocalypse In The Keys

The Feds have approved a plan to release more than 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes across the Florida Keys, despite objections from 
the locals. HERE

The Florida Keys, The Overseas Highway, & Key West

Florida Keys Deliver a Hard Message

 Officials in the Florida Keys announced what many coastal governments nationwide have long feared, but few have been willing to admit: As seas rise and flooding gets worse, not everyone
 can be saved.

And in some places, it doesn’t even 
make sense to try. HERE

7 Mile Bridge - Florida Keys Drone

More Than Just Rising Temperatures To Blame For Florida Keys Coral Dying

Citizen scientists work to save Florida's coral reef

The Keys Need Help

Last week Florida Keys fishing guides assembled their skiffs in Florida Bay, spelling the word for an aerial photograph: "Help!". The bay, since the 1980s, has endured repetitive algae blooms that stripped biodiversity from hundreds of square miles from pristine wilderness, leaving behind ghostly scenes reminiscent of chemical warfare. here 

The Conch Republic At War With Trump

Key West will send word to President-elect Donald Trump that it will remain dedicated to equal rights for all after he is sworn in as commander-in-chief. Also City Attorney Shawn Smith is drafting a proposed law to declare Key West a sanctuary city. here

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article120259058.html#storylink=cpy

The Keys Paying The Fox To Guard The Hen House

Monroe County commissioners, on record endorsing a freshwater storage area south of Lake Okeechobee to improve water flows into the Everglades, want to know where their paid lobbyist stands.

Commissioner Danny Kolhage said at Wednesday’s meeting in Key West that he would not vote to keep Tallahassee lobbyist Frank Bernardino’s firm on a county contract.

“They represent Big Sugar,” Kolhage said of the firm. “That’s an inherent conflict and I cannot vote for it.” here

FDOT Stealing Conch Republic Land

The Sunset Cove In Key Largo has been in business 65 years. It is the oldest motel on the island. One day the Florida Department of Transportation suddenly 

showed up at its door with a hell of a claim: Part of the resort, including the historic sign, was actually on state-owned land. As soon as possible, FDOT insisted, they must remove the sign and begin paying the state thousands of dollars in rent. here

Scuba Diving Santa Off Florida Keys

The Florida Keys and the Highway that goes to the Sea

The Awesome Wendy Davis In The Conch Republic

"I shelled out a hundred bucks just to be able to meet her, shake her hand and talk to her for a second," said Vicki Roush, 60, a Florida wine shop manager who's never lived in Texas but attended a Davis fundraiser in Key West. She said she cried while watching Davis' filibuster online last summer. "All the girls I know that were there were beside themselves." 

Fans across America

Hanging out with Charlie Crist

Stop Oil Drilling In The Florida Straits

Black Horizon 

Millions of gallons of oil are spewing from a hole in the ocean floor after a deadly explosion aboard a massive rig. The rig was in Cuban waters, just sixty miles from Key West, and the biggest man made environmental catastrophe in history is headed not toward Havana, but straight for the U.S. coastline. here

 The Cuban navy threatens to fire upon American cleanup equipment as “hostile invaders

A Cuban Oil Disaster And The Florida Keys

The scenario is fiction, but the high-level attention it is drawing to a looming Florida threat is real. “The Florida keys awash in Cuban crude. here