Whooping Crane Survives Florida Storms
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By CARRIE ANTLFINGER MILWAUKEE - A whooping crane was spotted alive on Sunday after it was believed killed with 17 others in severe Florida storms, according to an organizer of a migratory project.
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By Heath, David  The whooping crane (Grus americana), North America's tallest bird and a species that once seemed doomed to extinction, is showing signs of progress, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials.
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VERO BEACH, Fla., Sept. 28 -- Janet Hettinger waited more than two days to return home to this city's barrier island only to be told she couldn't go inside. Hurricane Jeanne's winds caused too much damage.
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Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and other Orlando, Fla.-area attractions escaped serious damage from Hurricane Jeanne last weekend and are fully operational, according to the Orlando/Orange County Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida  - The remains of Tropical Storm Barry brought high winds and heavy rains to Florida on Saturday, but the downpour was welcomed in a parched state that has been battling stubborn wildfires.
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When a hurricane makes landfall in the continental United States, Dave Prevatt and his colleagues in the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program are out evaluating which construction methods best protect homes from the tremendous wind forces the storms deliver.
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Nat Roberts watched with sympathy as Hurricane Charley blew in from the Gulf Coast three weeks ago and ripped through groves in southwest Florida, causing losses of up to 20 percent for next year's Florida citrus crop. The hurricane spared Roberts' property, safely located across the state on the Atlantic Coast, but his 4,000 acres of grapefruit and orange groves now face a similar danger from Hurricane Frances.
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Floridians have begun cleaning up after Hurricane Jeanne, the fourth hurricane to strike Florida in less than two months. A number of towns in Florida were still recovering from Hurricane Frances, which hit
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An injured manatee and her calf, fitted with a satellite tracking and monitoring system, were released Tuesday in the Florida Keys more than a year after being rescued.
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KEY WEST, Fla. - The only whooshing sound Hurricane Ivan stirred in the Keys and populous South Florida on Sunday was a sigh of relief from residents no longer fearful the 150-mph storm would make a direct hit...
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AUBURN, Calif. -- Leta Lindley&#39;s Florida home remains in the eye of the hurricane. She has an infant son to coddle and the death of her longtime coach to mourn.
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Tropical Storm Frances plowed ashore on Florida&#39;s northwestern Panhandle yesterday, its second US landfall after the former hurricane spread a trail of flooding and torn rooftops across the centre of the state.
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The numerous hurricanes that hit Florida this year appear to have helped the state avoid another record year of the potentially lethal West Nile virus.
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By RELMA HARGUS  A Thanksgiving trip Keri Bryan and her family took to the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas brought them into the presence of a record number of wild whooping cranes.  Whooping cranes have been endangered for years.
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By James A. Carlson Associated Press  MILWAUKEE -- All 18 endangered young whooping cranes that were led south from Wisconsin last fall as part of a project to create a second migratory flock of the birds were killed in storms in Florida, a spokesman said.
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By MARCIA DUNN     CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- NASA's hurricane-damaged spaceport should be able to withstand the wind and rain from Ivan if the storm stays well to the west, the Kennedy Space Center's director said Saturday...
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One of the first whooping crane chicks hatched in the wild in more than a century is making more history as it migrates south with its parents from a Wisconsin refuge.