New Ocean EcoCenter set to open in Martin County wptv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wptv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Black, slimy blobs are showing up by the dozens on Florida beaches. They’re called Sea Hares. Biologists say they’re harmless and perfectly natural this time of year.
Black, slimy blobs are showing up by the dozens on Florida beaches. They’re called Sea Hares. Biologists say they’re harmless and perfectly natural this time of year.
You can see them resting along many Florida beaches after westerly winds and cold water currents wash them ashore, which is common during the summer months.
“I don’t know exactly why, but my educated guess is it has to do with spawning,” said Elizabeth Allred, a marine biologist with Florida Oceanographic Society. The Aplysia morio Sea Hare shows up on beaches in Bermuda and the Eastern United States, from Rhode Island to Florida and Texas.
Potentially toxic algae forms near Pahokee City Marina wptv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wptv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Palm Beach Illustrated
Local initiatives work to please the planet by improving restaurants’ sustainability practices
Photo by Rachel Wallace Photography
While each of us individually can aim to make better food choices, our impact is limited without the participation of heavy hitters like restaurants. Fortunately, these local initiatives incentivize eateries to go greener.
Branzino at The Cooper.
Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s Blue Table Restaurant Program requires participating restaurants to implement environmentally friendly changes (e.g., no straws, plastics, or styrofoam) and apply Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch recommendations, which rate seafood sustainability on factors such as total population, bycatch, impact on ocean habitats, and more. Bonus points to restaurants like Tequesta’s Hog Snappers and Delray Beach’s Lionfish that include invasive species on their menu to impel elimination. Check out one (or more) of the eight Blue Table–approved restaurants