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A state law passed in 2020 requires school districts to monitor outdoor school activities for students showing signs of heat stress.

Experts fear human exposure to the virus can cause it to adapt and spread among humans and create a pandemic.

The Blue-Green Algae Task Force wants data on the state's strategy for curbing farm-related nutrient pollution.

Researchers and farmers continue the search for long-term solutions to an insect-spread illness called laurel wilt.

Global transportation and trade, compounded by people continuing to alter the local environment, has led to the spread of mosquitoes around the world. But how will these insects deal with a warming world?

Chickens are more susceptible to dying after hurricanes because of how farmers have to keep them. Chickens require raised houses and need to be kept cool to survive. This means hurricane-force winds alone can take down countless chicken houses and power outages can overheat them, effectively putting local farmers out of livestock and business.

She shares how small changes can keep you from overindulging on restaurant food.

Local government leaders from across Florida tell the Times they support their community’s fertilizer bans.

"The idea behind using sporopollenin is that now you create a permanent storage for that carbon — that carbon is not going back to the atmosphere," said Matias Kirst with UF.

Florida scientists are determining how cattle grazing impacts plants, green house gas emissions, and carbon stored in the soil, using collars and cell towers.

The peanut butter can be donated at locations statewide as a way to help those in need while bringing communities together.

A new invasive insect may not have the size of the much-talked about "murder hornet," but the smaller, winged meanie is just a big a threat to honeybees everywhere — and possibly Florida soon — after two were spotted and captured in Georgia.