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  Sea-Level Rise Might Kill Big Cypress Preserve's Namesake Trees, Study Warns

  August 23 at 8:30 a.m.

  South Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve is aptly named for its abundance of large cypress trees. The 720,000-acre stretch of land is one of the last few large chunks of protected Everglades wetland in South Florida — but thanks to a web of nefarious, manmade problems, the site will likely look very different within the next 50 years.

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  Brightline Tracks Transport Possibly Dangerous Natural Gas Through Miami

  August 22 at 4:21 p.m.

  Most of Florida East Coast Railway's train tracks in Miami-Dade County pass through highly populated urban areas. If a gigantic tanker of liquid natural gas were to spill, ignite, or explode, it's fair to assume a lot of homes or innocent people would stand in harm's way. But according to multiple public documents the watchdog news site Florida Bulldog dug up this morning, the railroad has already been transporting liquid natural gas (LNG) tankers through Miami-Dade to PortMiami and Hialeah.

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  Some Invasive Everglades Pythons Are Hybrid Juggernauts, Study Reveals

  August 22 at 8:36 a.m.

  Pythons are not supposed to be in the Everglades. The snakes likely got there because some Florida creep with way too many pet reptiles let them loose in the Glades in the 1980s. Now the dang things are eating everything and are so unstoppable that the state occasionally encourages random hunters...

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  Construction Workers Are Dumping Mountains of Garbage Around Miami-Dade

  August 21 at 8:57 a.m.

  If you dump more than 500 pounds of garbage around Florida, you could be charged with a felony. Florida is one of the few states with a felony litter law, and Miami-Dade Police officers are using it: In the past three years, 53 people have been arrested for dumping excessive amounts of trash wherever they feel like it.

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  Installing Emergency Generators in Miami-Dade Public Housing Would Cost $150 Million

  August 14 at 8:30 a.m.

  After 12 senior citizens overheated and died last year in a sweltering Hollywood nursing home where Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning, commissioners in Miami-Dade County agreed to look into installing generators in all of the county's public housing developments. But now that officials have crunched the numbers, those improvements seem unlikely to ever happen.

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  As Algae Bloom Grew, Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart Took $27,200 From Big Sugar

  August 8 at 8:30 a.m.

  From the beginning of June until early July, an algae bloom in Lake Okeechobee grew and grew until it covered 90 percent of the lake's surface. Then the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released water from the lake, letting the algae migrate to both coasts of Florida. The nasty, toxic...