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Dr. Michelle Wilson just graduated from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. She will continue her training with a residency in family medicine at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia. Verónica Zaragovia / WLRN
In South Florida, when people want to find a doctor who s Black, they often end up contacting Adrienne Hibbert through her online website, Black Doctors of South Florida. There are a lot of Black networks that are behind the scenes, says Hibbert, who runs her own marketing firm. I don t want them to be behind the scenes, so I m bringing it to the forefront.
Your bloated corpse a toxic wilderness, its brackish boundlessness
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Sargassum in the Florida Keys (Image Credit: Brian Lapointe, Florida Atlantic University).
This poem is inspired by recent research, which has found that excess nitrogen has made sargassum the world’s largest harmful algal bloom.
Sargassum is a genus of large brown seaweed (a type of algae) that floats in island-like masses and never attaches to the seafloor. Typically, sargassum blooms exist in low-nutrient waters off the coast of the North Atlantic, where they provide a vital nursery habitat for crabs, fish, sea turtles, and other marine species. However, tides, winds, and excess nutrients from natural and human sources can fuel massive blooms that encroach on coastal waters and deplete oxygen reserves in local ecosystems, turning these blooms into a toxic ‘dead zone.’ In recent years, sargassum blooms have gotten so big that governments have spent millions of dollars picking up the seaweed from sands a
Where does the seaweed come from? Gulfweed or sea holly, as it s sometimes called, originates in the Sargasso Sea. Currents push it south, then east, either into the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf Stream or the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf Stream carries it north, unless stronger east winds drive it onshore. The rest circles the Atlantic until it sinks and dies in the Sargasso Sea.
Is there anything good about seaweed?
In moderation, it has many environmental benefits, such as holding beach sand in place and providing food, fertilizer, hide-out habitat and nest-building materials for a vast array of wildlife, including birds, crabs, young turtles and dune plants. However, blooms have been increasing to problematic sizes over the past decade.
A group of faculty members at Florida Atlantic University want the university to stop asking students to disclose their criminal histories on their applications part of a growing movement to urge large schools and employers to rethink their application process.
Summer travel forecast calls for longer waits, fewer choices
By John Seewer - Associated Press
After a year of coronavirus lockdowns, the start of summer beckons with vacation plans made possible by relaxed COVID-19 restrictions. But a severe worker shortage brings a warning for travelers: Expect delays and pack a little patience.
Lifeguards and hotel housekeepers are in short supply. So are rental cars. And don’t count on having a fruity cocktail at the hotel Tiki bar.
The labor shortage is hitting the nation’s tourist destinations just as they try to rebound from a year lost to the pandemic, where periodic surges in cases and lockdowns had Americans sticking close to home. Now, with more than half of adults vaccinated, Americans are ready to venture out with the traditional start of summer travel.