Cold may be killing manatees - Gulfport - SunHerald.com

GULFPORT -- A manatee found in Mobile Bay died en route to the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport last week and teams are on their way to investigate another manatee found today in the Pascagoula River.
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He thinks the cold weather could be to blame. Manatees normally leave the area and go to Florida in the fall and don’t return until spring

“Cold temperature is their biggest enemy,” he said.

Climate change: we are like slave owners - Comment - The Ecologist

An economy run on slave labour has much in common with one run on fossil fuels, argues Jean-Francois Mouhot. Ending suffering means we all need to become modern-day abolitionists

Farm workers out of work for now - ABC-7.com WZVN News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida

COLLIER COUNTY: Fields that are normally packed with farm workers harvesting crops were nearly empty Tuesday because of all the cold weather damage.