Tag Archives: Florida Museum of Natural History

Florida Cattle Ranchers Exhibit opens at the Florida Museum of Natural History

“Move Over Texans, Floridians are the original cowboys.” That’s the slogan being used to describe the latest exhibit opening Saturday, February 12th at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. WUFT-FM’s Phillip Marks talks to the Co-Curator of the Florida Cattle Ranchers Exhibit, Robert Stone. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/cowboysQA.mp3]

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Shark attacks down in Florida but up in the nation

With Florida’s long coastline, the state traditionally sees the highest number of shark attacks per year globally. Last year, the number of attacks around the world climbed, but there were actually fewer reported in the state. WUFT’s Kara VanHoose spoke with the Director of the Florida Museum of Natural History …

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Coral reefs remain at risk from BP oil spill and global warming

The Obama administration will no longer allow new deepwater drilling projects to go forward without environmental reviews, as happened with BP’s Deepwater Horizon. The administration announced the new policy today (Monday) after the White House Council on Environmental Quality reported that BP got environmental exemptions based on decades-old data. Shallow-water …

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