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Flamingos or Bust

The helicopter was heading east over the man-made wetlands that buffer the Everglades, called storm-water treatment areas (STAs). Mark Cook stared out the window absentmindedly. Cook is a lead scientist with the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), which owns and manages the STAs. He had just spent the day surveying the ibis population to […]

Editor’s Note: From Florida with Love

I remember well the first moment I stepped off an airplane at the Douala International Airport in the Central African country of Cameroon, in 2009. The tiny, rectangular terminal looked like a rain-soaked paper bag perched atop toothpicks that would blow away in a storm. The thick humidity rolled over my face like a steamer. […]