Sanibel and Captiva: Rebuilding Paradise
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From Pensacola to Daytona, a look at the hurricane damage, and at the recovery efforts.
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It's time for a research resurgence into using small water plants to produce oil and ethanol. In Autopia.
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By Scott Hiaasen, The Miami Herald  Mar. 13--Another patch of Biscayne Bay real estate. Another plan to build homes in the water.   Months after the state paid $7.2 million for six acres of bay muck, a Miami real-estate broker bought the muck next door.
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Expensive yachts were beached, tossed to the shore like toys. Well-built homes were reduced to splintered wood, or left without roofs. Utility poles and palm trees were snapped in two or uprooted.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or some Spanish galleon but instead nature's bounty, rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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By Gabriel Tynes, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Sep.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun.
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Life can be cramped when you live on a remote cluster of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean, so the Maldives has plumped for a novel if seemingly extreme solution -- build a new island from scratch.
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By By Melanie Sill, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun.
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Two storms battered the island; Ivan may spare it. Still, residents prepare for worst - or stubbornly plan to stay. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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By Angie Toole, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun.
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By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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By Lisa Fleisher, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 6--A revitalization effort kicked off Tuesday that targets one of Myrtle Beach's most depressed areas and aims to create an affordable, safe neighborhood for the city's working class.
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SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. - This crescent of sand bathed by the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico is one of Florida&#39;s mythic destinations, a magnet for bird-watchers, seashell gatherers and the simply sun-starved.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine.   It's not sunken treasure or a Spanish galleon but rather nature's bounty: rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. Aug. 18, 2004  Permanent residents returned to Sanibel Island on Wednesday for the first time since it was evacuated before Hurricane Charley struck last weekend. Roads had been cleared of storm debris but there was no power or ...
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Vast efforts are underway to rebuild the region's natural hurricane defenses.