Environment
Articles on topics affecting our natural world, including water, animals, plants and ecology
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A boom, a bust, and a century of forgetting: Electric cars are nothing new
Early in the 20th century, an Orlando man charged his Detroit Electric at home while gas cars were still newfangled. Then oil got cheap and electric vanished for a century. Now we’re finally returning to what one captain knew all… Continue reading
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How Central Florida traded wild shorelines for highway access
In the 1980s, Florida residents fought a planned expressway that would slice through neighborhoods and damage a huge lake’s ecosystem. Today, the highway offers convenient access to Orlando — but at the cost of 140 acres of wetlands. Continue reading
Tiffini Theisen 