Red Tide

Dead redfish on Manasota Key Growing up in the Cold War era, I associated Red Tide with communism. Recently, I saw the results of another kind of Red Tide. This one caused by a population explosion of toxic plankton in the ocean usually from environmental factors like warm temperatures, calm seas and high nutrition content, …

New hope for a son of Libya

This is Bashir Al Megaryaf. He’s holding a poster demanding the release of his father, imprisoned in a Libyan jail for two decades. Bashir was only 1 when his father was detained. He has not seen him since. But he has new hope in his heart that the two may be together again as the …

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