Florida Bird Photography and Alligators

  Florida, the land of sunshine, fresh fruit and a cornucopia of colorful birds waiting to be enjoyed.  Home to over 257 species of birds the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge is a birders dream or in...

Michelle de Kretser: The urban jungle

Good interview with Michelle de Kretser - anyone not yet familiar with her work might feel like trying some out after reading this well written interview by Boyd Tonkin"The best stories lodge in the memory and return...

Can you snap me now? It's a turtle-to-turtle wireless network

Two teams of researchers with seemingly divergent areas of interest have come together for a techie-meets-nature experiment in Massachusetts. The researchers are simultaneously studying new wireless technology and...

Never Smile At A Crocodile

This one's a nightmare story.  An Australian found himself in the middle of a croc swamp surrounded by hungry crocodiles, managed to get himself up a tree and spent seven long days trying not to fall down into...

Australian stockman tells of crocodile ordeal

"A stockman has told how he spent a week stuck up a tree in remote north Queensland bushland, as hungry crocodiles waited below. David George, 53, set out from his Silver Plains cattle station, near Coen in far north...

Floods swamp farmland and roads

"Flooding has caused more problems for farmers and drivers in southern Derbyshire, England. There are warnings in place on the River Trent between  Yoxall, Burton-on-trent, Staffordshire and Clay Mills, and at  Cavendish Bridge, Shardlow, Derby. Farmland near...

The Great Black Swamp

The Great Black Swamp in Ohio was as large as the Everglades, but covered with broad leaf trees:"“Water! Water! Water!” wrote an early surveyor of northwestern Ohio, “tall timber! deep water! Not a blade of...

All dead in Cameroon swamp plane crash

"Rescue teams found no one alive when they reached the wreckage of a Kenyan Airways plane that crashed in swampland in southwest Cameroon with 114 people on board. "There are only dead, no survivors," said one relief...

Miami's Wild West: mobsters, hit men and Lucky Cole

If you do nothing else on NowPublic today, read the highlighted article on Lucky Cole, the wild man of Loop Road in Florida. Here's a guy you could turn into a TV series without even working up a sweat. Great writing...

Fowl odors emanating from the Conyers swamp

"Just last week, I speculated that incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi could not politically afford to abandon yet another Black democrat after deciding to throw Alcee Hastings and Bill Jefferson under the bus . With his quiet admission of ethics violations, and in the spirit of...

Nancy Pelosi turns two lost souls away...can you believe it?

Nancy Pelosi had a 4 day Party to start the New Year off. The way way treated these two lost souls is nothing short of a national disgrace! Read more...

Pelosi says she would drain GOP 'swamp'

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