On April 20th, one of my favorite places in Miami – Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science – is hosting an all day series of events in honor of Earth Day 2019. Start your day off with a chance to make a difference with a MUVE led clean-up of our local green spaces and…
Parks & Recreation
Scientists Capture a Record 17-foot Python in Florida
Researchers at Big Cypress National Preserve caught the largest python ever found in the Everglades area just west of Miami. According to the Facebook post that accompanied the eye-popping photo, the female python was more than 17 feet long, weighed 140 pounds, and contained 73 developing eggs. Scientists explained they were using a new research…
Chipping Away at Our National Parks
Scientific America has an excellent (albeit disheartening) article written by Dana Hunter up at their website: The Trump Administration’s Effect on National Parks How are our national parks faring under the Trump administration and its Republican Congress? Let’s take a look at the latest actions, and you can decide for yourselves. The report goes on to…
Alice Wainwright Park – Connecting People to Nature on World Environment Day
Today is World Environment Day, so let’s celebrate Alice Wainwright Park. Alice Wainwright Park is located just south of the entrance to the Rickenbacker Causeway on the northern edge of Coconut Grove along Brickell Avenue. The 28-acre waterfront park & nature preserve showcases a tropical hardwood hammock. This stand of trees is a remnant of the…
4earth: 4 days, 4 events, 4 earth with the Miami Seaquarium
For Earth Day 2017, the Miami Seaquarium has organized four days of ocean and environmental awareness. Each event will focus on different issues that impact our local ecosystems, presented in an entertaining and engaging program with hand-on activities. There is something for everyone with most of the events being family friendly and free! April 20, 6:00pm –…
April 15 is National Citizen Science Day – Spend It with the Miami Science Barge & Frost Science at Museum Park
Join the Miami Science Barge and Frost Science for the Second Annual Citizen Science Day at Museum Park in Downtown Miami. Citizen scientists of all ages can participate in a “BioBlitz” using the iNaturalist app (FREE for Apple or Android devices) to document the biological diversity in Museum Park. All ages are welcome, and the event is…
10 Trails Named After Influential Women from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Love this article from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy: For Women’s History Month, we honor this visionary woman and others who have made extraordinary impacts in their own communities and for the nation. In some cases, their legacy lives on in the names of trails that are used and loved by communities. Here are just 10 to inspire…
Saturday: UnderLounge Festival at Underline Brickell Backyard
The Underline is a proposed 10-mile linear park that will run below the Miami Metrorail from the Miami River to the Dadeland South Station. In the words of it’s founder, The Underline will connect communities, improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety, create over a hundred acres of open space with restored natural habitats, encourage a healthy…
#DontFeedtheLandfills on #NationalTrailsDay
What better day to share this beautiful video from Subaru and the National Park Service than National Trails Day? Subaru, recognized for having the first automotive assembly plant in America designated as zero landfill, …announced [last year] it will share its knowledge of zero landfill practices with the National Park Service to reduce landfill waste from…
Bike 305, Bike The Underline, a 10-mile festival
Friends of the Underline and Bike 305 are hosting a 10-mile festival on Saturday, April 2. The unique festival is FREE and open to all ages to promote the “proposed 10-mile stretch of biking and pedestrian trails and park spaces located beneath the county’s Metrorail, in the Transit Department’s Right of Way, between the Miami…