Five years ago, the only athletic activity on Virginia Key was getting buzzed at Jimbo’s and bowling bocci balls with the beach bums. Ever since the island’s 82-acre park reopened in 2008, however, Miami cyclists have turned the mounds of dredge detritus into a mountain biker’s Mecca. Miles of trails…
The Heat may be the best basketball team in the nation, but when it comes to this city’s public parks, Miami performs more like the miserable Marlins. According to Parkscore rankings released yesterday, Miami is one of the worst major cities in the country when it comes to providing green…
It’s the first Monday of hurricane season, which means all across the Sunshine State thousands are heading into work with the vague feeling they’ve forgotten something important (PSSST! Hurricane supplies, people. Specifically: vodka and board games.). Well, here’s a kick in the ass to get that kit together: Storms brewing…
When illustrator Nikolay Lamm read a recent New York Times series on how various U.S. cities would fare with projected levels of sea-level rise from global warming, he wanted to visualize that process more clearly. So Lamm contacted Remik Ziemlinksi from Climate Central, who had helped the Times create its interactive…
It’s relatively rare to spot a great white shark in the relatively warm waters of Florida. It’s even rarer to find an 18-foot specimen lurking in the Gulf of Mexico, but a Canadian tourist got the fishing trip of a lifetime when he hooked such a beast during a chartered…
If regular mosquitoes are like chihuahuas, small ankle-biting little buggers, then gallinippers would be pit bulls. They’re twenty times the size of a regular mosquito, and have mouthparts so strong they can pierce through clothing. Their eggs can lie dormant for years, but scientists warn that weather conditions over the…
With news that a second sinkhole has opened a mere two miles from the Tampa-area site where last week a man died after being swallowed by a sinkhole that formed under his home, you might be worried the entire state is sinking. Well, as you should know, Miami is a…
It is hard enough out there for a single mother giraffe just trying to get by with out some boned up douche giraffe male trying to force himself upon her. Kita the Giraffe, a 29-year-old lady giraffe at Zoo Miami, took a tumble yesterday while running away from a male giraffe…
Surely you’ve heard of Florida’s ongoing snake hunting challenge, but have you ever thought about the types of people that actually are out there participating? Much like the beasts they’re hunting, they appear to be a strange breed.For instance, apparently they wear the stench of snake urine-like a cologne…
Technically it is actually the middle of winter, but Miami has had temperatures in the 80s for 15 straight days now. That’s matched a record for the most days above 80 degrees in winter since records have been kept, according to CBS Miami. The previous stretch was in 2002, and…
Always careful to take up practical, non-partisan causes instead of throwing partisan bombs, Sen. Bill Nelson has made Florida’s invasive python problem one of his key issues. So now the man we’ve dubbed Senator Spacesnakes is actually taking on the problem directly. He’s joining Florida’s controversial python hunting challenge, and…
The animals at Zoo Miami were reminded of their own mortality in a big way on Monday; once again warned that every second that ticks by is a second closer to their own unavoidable death.Reminded that one day they too will end up like Mohan the rhino and Tevy the…
Yesterday it was confirmed that 2012 was indeed the hottest year on record in the Lower 48, and yes maybe global warming may mean doom and gloom for the future of humanity.But don’t worry. There’s a cute side to the story. Thanks to a warmer winter, fewer manatees died in…
Does slogging around a foreboding, swampy wilderness searching for man-hungry pythons that can grow longer than a city block sound like your idea of a fun weekend? For hundreds of people from around the country, the answer is a resounding yes.More than 400 souls who have apparently never seen cinematic…
Although Hurricane Sandy did not, as some meteorologists and media folks predicted, cause the earth to split asunder and drown us all in magma, it did put a pretty big hurt on New York City and the rest of the Northeast. In Gotham, the toll was massive: Flooding all over lower…
The morning of Monday, October 29 dawned cloudy and a little windy in New York City, which came as a surprise to the eight million or so inhabitants who had expected God himself to be pissing on the city at the break of dawn.The national media had been breathlessly predicting…
Oh hey Northeast, how you doing? Oh, you’re about to get a hurricane. It’s a Category One. We totally didn’t even hear about it. Oh, wait, that’s all we’re hearing about right now.Listen, we’re kind of jealous. A hurricane comes towards Florida and it gets maybe a 30 second mention…
Hurricane Sandy isn’t expected to make landfall in Florida, but the storm will still be annoying as the outer bands hit the southeastern part of the state throughout the day.Miami-Dade is under a tropical storm warning, meaning a lot of rain and wind are expected. The conditions are forecasted to…
There’s no need to raid Publix for water, hurricane shutters, vodka and “Golden Girls” DVDs just yet, but you might as well prepare yourself for a miserable end of the week thanks to Tropical Storm Sandy.The strengthening storm is set to become a Cat 1 hurricane before walloping Jamaica later…
There’s not that much to do over in Naples, Florida, so recording rain pouring down over your lanai seems like a fun idea. That’s what Rita Krill was doing recently when all the sudden the vengeful weather Gods sent a fireball of lightning down into her yard…
Manatees across the waters of Florida can breath a sign of relief. The woman who was caught on camera hitching a ride on back of an endangered sea mammal has turned herself in.Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez says that she was new to the area and didn’t think there was anything…
An unidentified woman was seen hitching a ride on the back of a manatee in the waters off Fort De Soto Park in the Tampa Bay area, which runs afoul of the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act.Now authorities are looking for the manatee molester…
