6+ hour, 22+ min ago   (620+ words) —She has been swimming for weeks. —At first light a volunteer finds them, and a yellow stake goes in. —That is the battle. It is only the first one. —Sixty days in the sand —Temperature decides something else. Sea turtles…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (452+ words) —A Hometown Lab Takes the National Stage —Changing Seas, produced by South Florida PBS in Miami and distributed nationally by American Public Television, has spent 18 seasons taking viewers underwater alongside working scientists. Its newest season hands an entire episode to…...

2+ mon, 8+ hour ago   (982+ words) “There was some concern about particulate matter that was showing up on vehicles and on furniture outside, and we needed to find out where it was coming from,” Town Manager Howard Tipton told the commission as he introduced the item…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (349+ words) —That is precisely why what Mote Marine Laboratory is doing this summer matters more than a routine fish release. —A fish with no price tag — and an outsized footprint —What Mote is doing this summer —The science is the point....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (524+ words) —It is reaching every lawn, every flower bed, and, as a great many residents are now discovering when they open the mail, every water bill. You do not need a government index to know something is wrong. You can see…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (161+ words) —The Rise of the Aqua Dam —Homeowners and businesses are investing heavily in various systems to ring-fence their properties against the rising waters. The most common types include: •Modular and L-Shaped Barriers: Interlocking systems that brilliantly use the weight of…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1109+ words) Linda Mitchell has a phrase she has lived by for most of her adult life: bloom where you are planted. —It sounds simple enough — the kind of thing you needlepoint on a pillow or write in a card. But for…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (354+ words) For Longboat Key residents who love the ocean — and there are a few — a piece of news arrived quietly in late March that deserves a second look. On March 28, scientists from Sarasota’s own Mote Marine Laboratory waded into the waters…...

8+ mon, 2+ day ago   (273+ words) Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium held the official grand opening of the new Mote Science Education Aquarium on Oct. 8. The new Aquarium marks decades of leadership and philanthropy that paved the way for the 146,000-square-foot facility at 225 University Town Center Drive…...

8+ mon, 4+ day ago   (746+ words) Special to Longboat Key News by Jeff Masters and Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections December 2025 With the calendar turned to December, we now close the book on the thoroughly weird Atlantic hurricane season of 2025. There were 13 named storms, five hurricanes,…...