Santa Barbara’s Everyday Ghandis By Lori Robinson, Saving Wild For most kids, summertime means fun, barbecues, and hanging around with friends. But 16-year-old twin brothers Noah and Ramon Wang are doing something radically different during their summer vacation. “After…
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According to a recent baseline census of sharks in Florida, the most common shark in Floridian waters is the nurse shark. The census included catching, tagging, and releasing 3,398 different sharks from the area and identified 15 different species. Other…
Glasswing butterflies (Greta oto) are a rare species that is found throughout areas of Central and South America. “Like ghosts in the rainforest,” according to Nipam Patel, director of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hold, Massachusetts, these strange insects…
“Fast fashion” refers to inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass-market retailers in response to the latest trends. This type of production is extremely popular, and it’s having a drastic effect on consumer waste produced around the world. According to the…
The Everglades received record breaking flooding in late 2020, which caused the popular Shark Valley entrance to the National Park to remain closed for two months longer than expected. This 15-mile loop trail with an observation tower is familiar to…
Briana Gibbs is the KBCF Citizen Scientist Project Communications and Outreach Consultant and holds a Master of Science in fisheries management. Her Master’s research project involved a 2 month research cruise to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2018 where she studied marine pollution and its impacts on pelagic fish populations.
By Nathan Moyer | Founder of Free Plastic, Inc. What are Plastics? Plastics are all around us, and we use plastics constantly throughout the day. Plastics make up our refrigerators and freezers, they form the dashboards and doors of our…