Still fighting Gulf oil spill’s lasting impact – SEPTEMBER 20, 2020 (From The Villages Daily Sun / Michael Salerno / September 20, 2020) Tears poured down the faces of people in Pensacola Beach at the sight of sands and animals soaked in oil. Its creeping eastward scourge in June 2010, two months after the Deepwater…
A new oceanographic study underscores the deep connection that exists between Florida and Cuba. Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science have uncovered specific types of previously unknown clockwise recirculating ocean features (called anticyclonic eddies or anticyclones), which they named Cuban Anticyclones, or CubANs since they form and travel eastward along the Cuban coast.
Florida has received $34.3 million in conservation grants from a settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.