Category News: Media Coverage
Results 5612023 In the Company of Women Awards honors 14 inspiring women
March 8, 2023
Community Newspapers reported that Miami Waterkeeper Executive Director Dr. Rachel Silverstein received the Mayor’s Pioneer Award at Miami-Dade’s 34th annual In the Company of…
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Coastal residents fear ‘hideous’ seawalls will block waterfront views
January 13, 2023
The Guardian examined the backlash against the Army Corps’ $5 billion plan to wall Miami off from climate change with a massive concrete seawall…
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Florida Is Fighting to Feed Starving Manatees This Winter
January 3, 2023
WIRED reported on Florida’s desperate effort to hand-feed lettuce to starving manatees — more than 1,100 dead in 2021 and nearly 800 in 2022…
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Don’t Trash Our Treasure: Reviewing stories that made a difference in 2022
December 29, 2022
Local 10 News, in its year-end “Don’t Trash Our Treasure” review, revisited the environmental stories that shaped 2022 — from Florida’s manatee starvation crisis…
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Miami Beach launches campaign aimed at educating about dog poop damaging Biscayne Bay
December 14, 2022
Local 10 News, for its “Don’t Trash Our Treasure” series, covered Miami Beach’s new “Don’t Be Ruff on the Bay” campaign urging dog owners…
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Blue-Green Algae Alert For The Coral Gables Canal-East Side
December 5, 2022
The Florida Department of Health issuing a blue-green algae alert for the Coral Gables canal-East Side. It comes thanks to too many toxins in…
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Alarming manatee death toll in Florida prompts calls for endangered status
November 25, 2022
The Guardian reported on the alliance of environmental groups — including Miami Waterkeeper, the Center for Biological Diversity, Harvard Law’s animal law clinic, and…
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Environmental Groups Ask for Manatees to Be Reclassified as ‘Endangered’ Again
November 21, 2022
The Epoch Times reported on the five-group petition — Miami Waterkeeper among them — asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reclassify the…
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Feds propose Biscayne Bay, parts of Keys as‘ critical habitat’ for threatened Nassau grouper
November 16, 2022
The Sun Sentinel reported that federal fisheries regulators have proposed designating more than 900 square miles of South Florida and Caribbean waters as “critical…
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